On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 7:03 AM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > another feature i've seen for the very first time ... working with > kubernetes so i checked it out of github, and part of the instructions > for that is to make sure you don't accidentally try to push back to > the github remote, so the directions suggest: > > $ git remote add upstream https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes.git > $ git remote set-url --push upstream no_push > > fair enough, i just assumed the word "no_push" was some magical > keyword in that context, but as i read it, all you need to do is put > *some* invalid URL value there, is that correct? > > and is that the accepted way to do that? what about just deleting > that line from .git/config? is that valid, or is there a different > recommendation for doing that? thanks. > > rday I've done this in the past by using a push hook which just reports an error. That's how I'd do it. I think if you also set the push url to the empty string it would also work. Thanks, Jake