How can I specify multiple refs on one line in the config file?

> How can I specify multiple refs on one line in the config file? For
>  example, I want "git push" to push all heads and all tags by default
>  so I tried this:
>
>     [remote "origin"]
>         push = refs/heads/* refs/tags/*
>
>  That doesn't work, of course, but I imagine it is possible, and I just
>  can't figure out the syntax.

> On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 4:33 PM, Thomas Adam <thomas.adam22@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I might be misunderstanding you, but to push tags, there's:
> >
> > git push --tags
> 
> True, but I only want to type "git push". No, it's not _really_
> necessary, but I'd like to set it up that way so I don't have to
> depend on my coworkers (new git users) remembering "--tags".

>
> On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 05:19:30PM -0500, Steve Hoelzer <shoelzer@gmail.com> wrote:
>  > On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 4:33 PM, Thomas Adam <thomas.adam22@gmail.com> wrote:
>  > > I might be misunderstanding you, but to push tags, there's:
>  > >
>  > > git push --tags
>  >
>  > True, but I only want to type "git push". No, it's not _really_
>  > necessary, but I'd like to set it up that way so I don't have to
>  > depend on my coworkers (new git users) remembering "--tags".
>
>  are you sure pushing tags by default is a good idea? people regularly
>  create local tags to mark a commit before a rebase, to mark a commit as
>  a fix for a given bug, etc. those tags aren't interesting for others.
>  tags which should be pushed usually rare. then you can use git push
>  origin tag v1.0, since you know which tag you really want to push.

> 2008/5/7 Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>:
>>  are you sure pushing tags by default is a good idea? people regularly
>>  create local tags to mark a commit before a rebase, to mark a commit as
>>  a fix for a given bug, etc. those tags aren't interesting for others.
>>  tags which should be pushed usually rare. then you can use git push
>>  origin tag v1.0, since you know which tag you really want to push.
>
> Probably not, which is why '--tags' exists in the first place.  But
> then if you're working from a shared repository (which I am -- as are
> many, no doubt in a corporate environment) it's rather useful.  I
> would find local tags though to be odd.

> How can I specify multiple refs on one line in the config file? For
> example, I want "git push" to push all heads and all tags by default
> so I tried this:
> 
>     [remote "origin"]
>     	push = refs/heads/* refs/tags/*
> 
> That doesn't work, of course, but I imagine it is possible, and I just
> can't figure out the syntax.

> >     [remote "origin"]
> >     	push = refs/heads/* refs/tags/*
> > 
> > That doesn't work, of course, but I imagine it is possible, and I just
> > can't figure out the syntax.
> 
> I imagine it is possible, too, but not with one line. How about:
> 
>   [remote "origin"]
>     push = refs/heads/*:refs/heads/*
>     push = refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*

> Aside: configuring a remote as
> 
>   [remote "origin"]
>     push = refs/heads/*
>     push = refs/tags/*
> 
> seems to hang forever. I didn't expect it to _work_, but probably it
> should eventually terminate. ;)