From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 10 May 2015 18:46:27 GMT
Subject: Re: Multiple push remotes via aliases
Message-ID: <xmqq4mnkgtj0.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20150510181703.GC225482@vauxhall.crustytoothpaste.net>

"brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> writes:

> I recently discovered that it was possible to specify multiple push URLs
> for a remote.  This is useful for me because some of my projects live
> both on GitHub and on my own server, and some live only one place or the
> other.
>
> One feature that I'm looking for, however, is the ability to specify
> those URLs by reference to another remote.

Two issues that immediately comes to my mind are

 (1) how you deal with a misconfiguration that makes a loop;

 (2) how would you disambiguate a local directory and a nickname.

I do not think either is insurmountable and as long as clean
solutions for them are implemented I would say "why not?" for the
new feature.  Of course there may be other issues other than these
two knee-jerk ones.