Holger Hellmuth <hellmuth@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > So today I tried to create a > bidirectional link between a local and a remote branch using only > porcelain commands (i.e. without using git config directly). Somehow I > didn't succeed. I can either use git checkout --track or git push -u > to make a pull connection between the two, but to automatically push I > would have to create a branch of the same name (and know that this is > the magical ingredient that makes it work!) In this particular case, having 'push.default=upstream' would have done it for you: your "push -u" would have set up the upstream, and the next "push" would have followed it. (or you could "git push remote local-branch:remote-branch") -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/ -- 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