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From: "Björn Steinbrink" <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de>
To: Brendan Miller <catphive@catphive.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: obnoxious CLI complaints
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 03:32:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090910013235.GA9980@atjola.homenet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ef38762f0909091427m5b8f3am72c88fd4dbfebc59@mail.gmail.com>

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

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-09-10  1:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-09 21:27 obnoxious CLI complaints Brendan Miller
2009-09-09 21:54 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-09-09 22:06   ` Wincent Colaiuta
2009-09-10 16:50     ` Jakub Narebski
2009-09-10 18:53       ` Junio C Hamano
2009-09-10 22:19         ` René Scharfe
2009-09-11  3:15         ` Björn Steinbrink
2009-09-10 19:46       ` John Tapsell
2009-09-10 20:17         ` Sverre Rabbelier
2009-09-10 20:23         ` Jakub Narebski
2009-09-10 22:04           ` John Tapsell
2009-09-10 22:49             ` Junio C Hamano
2009-09-10 23:19               ` demerphq
2009-09-11  0:37                 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-09-11  0:18               ` John Tapsell
2009-09-11  0:25                 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-09-10  0:09   ` Brendan Miller
2009-09-10  1:25     ` Todd Zullinger
2009-09-10  9:16     ` Jakub Narebski
2009-09-10 18:18       ` Eric Schaefer
2009-09-10 18:52         ` Sverre Rabbelier
2009-09-10 22:19       ` René Scharfe
2009-09-11 14:47         ` Linus Torvalds
2009-09-11 22:01           ` René Scharfe
2009-09-11 22:16             ` Linus Torvalds
2009-09-12 10:31     ` Dmitry Potapov
2009-09-12 18:32       ` John Tapsell
2009-09-12 21:44         ` Dmitry Potapov
2009-09-12 22:21           ` John Tapsell
2009-09-12 22:35             ` A Large Angry SCM
2009-09-12 22:43             ` Dmitry Potapov
2009-09-12 23:08               ` John Tapsell
2009-09-13  2:47                 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-09-13 17:36                   ` [PATCH 1/2] git-archive: add '-o' as a alias for '--output' Dmitry Potapov
2009-09-13 17:36                     ` [PATCH 2/2] teach git-archive to auto detect the output format Dmitry Potapov
2009-09-13 18:52                       ` Junio C Hamano
2009-09-13 20:17                         ` [PATCH v2 " Dmitry Potapov
2009-09-13 21:27                           ` Junio C Hamano
2009-09-13 18:34                     ` [PATCH 1/2] git-archive: add '-o' as a alias for '--output' Junio C Hamano
2009-09-13 20:13                       ` [PATCH v2 " Dmitry Potapov
2009-09-17  0:48                   ` obnoxious CLI complaints Brendan Miller
2009-09-17  1:27                     ` Junio C Hamano
2009-09-09 21:58 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2009-09-09 22:58 ` Pierre Habouzit
2009-09-10  1:32 ` Björn Steinbrink [this message]
2009-09-10 18:54   ` Matthieu Moy

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