On 2009.09.09 14:27:56 -0700, Brendan Miller wrote: > 8. There's no obvious way to make a remote your default push pull > location without editing the git config file. Why not just something > like > > git remote setdefault origin Because "git remote" is the wrong tool. The default remote for fetch/push is configured per branch head, not globally. > or even > > git remote add --default origin http://somegiturl.org/ Because that would likely mean changing all the existing branch head configurations, quite possibly making them invalid, because the branch.<name>.merge value suddenly makes no sense anymore. > This come up in the use case where I: > 1. set up a remote bare repo > 2. push from my local repo, and thence forth want to keep local and > remote in sink. Maybe you want something like this? http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/107671 > Right now I have to modify .git/config to do this. You can also do: git config branch.<name>.remote <remote> which does the config editing for you. And maybe: git config branch.<name>.merge <ref> if you also want just "git pull" to work, or use push.default = tracking. There's also still my old "retrack" hack, which John Wiegley extended: http://github.com/jwiegley/git-scripts/blob/6ba3184d7b9f6dae3d10379a6bac29a01ceef190/git-retrack That's a bit more comfortable, but probably doesn't work for a lot of "non-standard" setups. Björn -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html