Steffen Prohaska wrote:
On Nov 22, 2007, at 2:48 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
Nico -telmich- Schottelius <nico-linux-git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
writes:
Nice would be
[branch "master"]
remote-push = origin
remote-push-merge = another_branch
And thus perhaps also changing the existing specs:
remote = ... to remote-fetch = ...
merge = ... to remote-fetch-merge =
I do not think doing this is worth it, not because I think a
single branch.$name.remote should be good enough for everybody,
but because once you need a separate remote each for fetching
and pushing, there is no reason to say one per direction is
enough.
An alternative could be to split [remote "name"] url into two
variants, fetch-url and push-url. While fetching by default
from two places without telling from which one does not make any
sense, pushing by default to two different places is quite a
normal thing to do, and we already do support more than one url
entries in [remote "name"] section used for pushing.
If we were to do this, it might also make sense to rename the
word 'origin' we use for the default remote name to 'default' or
something. People with shared repository workflow would fetch
from one repository and push back to the same repository, so the
distinction would not matter, but for others who need something
like you suggest, the default repository for fetching and
pushing are different, and while you may still consider where
you fetch from your 'origin', where you push into is not your
'origin' anymore.
I like this idea.
I don't. It's troublesome enough to try to teach the finer points
of git to my co-workers without different defaults between versions.
So far we're getting around the problem by the relatively crude
expedient of forcing everyone to update to the latest stable from
master each time I say so. It works, but doesn't scale too well, and
since every major distro now ships git packages, it would be nice if
default-names at least settled down and were only changed with new
major releases (that is, from 1.x to 2.x).
On the other hand, I'm sure we'll cope whatever you decide.
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