From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthieu Moy Subject: Per-remote tracking branch Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:29:58 +0200 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Sep 15 17:30:13 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MnZyt-0000ur-Sg for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:30:12 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754723AbZIOPaB (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:30:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754709AbZIOPaA (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:30:00 -0400 Received: from mx1.imag.fr ([129.88.30.5]:43075 "EHLO shiva.imag.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754698AbZIOPaA (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:30:00 -0400 Received: from mail-veri.imag.fr (mail-veri.imag.fr [129.88.43.52]) by shiva.imag.fr (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n8FFPqV5002502 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:25:52 +0200 Received: from bauges.imag.fr ([129.88.43.5]) by mail-veri.imag.fr with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.50) id 1MnZyg-00018A-5d; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:29:58 +0200 Received: from moy by bauges.imag.fr with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1MnZyg-0005zl-4C; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:29:58 +0200 User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0.1 (shiva.imag.fr [129.88.30.5]); Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:25:52 +0200 (CEST) X-IMAG-MailScanner-Information: Please contact MI2S MIM for more information X-MailScanner-ID: n8FFPqV5002502 X-IMAG-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-IMAG-MailScanner-SpamCheck: X-IMAG-MailScanner-From: moy@imag.fr MailScanner-NULL-Check: 1253633153.33063@ncAZv/rkk2EKg3vy1d4gHA Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, Is there a way, with Git, to specify a tracking branch on a per-remote basis? At the moment, I can configure a tracking branch to let me just type $ git pull when I want to say $ git pull origin master Now, assume I have another remote "foo", I'd like to be able to just say $ git pull foo and put something in my .git/config so that Git knows I mean $ git pull foo master Is there a simple way to do that? (for the motivation: I mostly use Git with a 1-branch-per-repo setup, so in 99% of my use-cases, when I have to specify a branch, it's master). Thanks, -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/