Hi Peff, On Sat, 8 Nov 2014, Jeff King wrote: > On Fri, Nov 07, 2014 at 02:58:17PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > Under certain circumstances, it makes a *lot* of sense to allow pushing > > into the current branch. For example, when two machines with different > > Operating Systems are required for testing, it makes much more sense to > > synchronize between working directories than having to go via a third > > server. > > FWIW, I do this without a third server (and without resorting to pull), > with: > > host1$ git push host2 master:refs/remotes/host1/master > host2$ git merge host1/master > > You can even set up a push refspec to make "git push host2" do the right > thing. > > That being said, I do like the premise of your patch, as it eliminates > the extra step on the remote side (which is not that big a deal in > itself, but when you realize that host2 _did_ have some changes on it, > then you end up doing the merge there, when in general I'd prefer to do > all the work on host1 via "git pull"). Plus: you have the luxury of working on an OS that makes ssh'ing from another machine relatively easy. At least if you have the root password on your machine. Which, I hate to point it out, is not too common a commodity. Ciao, Dscho -- 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