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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email>,
	Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
	phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk, Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: git branch --edit-description a custom file
Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2019 12:21:52 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqd0e81g33.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191031154217.GA30187@sigill.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:42:17 -0400")

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> Do either of you use remote.pushDefault, branch.*.pushRemote, or
> @{push}?
>
> My triangular config for git.git looks like:
>
>   [remote "origin"]
> 	url = https://github.com/gitster/git.git
>   [remote "github"]
> 	url = https://github.com/peff/git.git
>   [remote]
> 	pushDefault = github
>   [branch "jk/foo"]
> 	remote = origin
> 	merge = refs/heads/master
>
> Then upstream comparisons, "git rebase" etc without arguments, do what I
> want: compare against master. And "git push" without arguments does what
> I want: push this branch to my fork. And if I need to refer to the
> pushed version for some reason (e.g., comparing what I just changed to
> what I last sent out, "git range-diff @{u} @{push} HEAD" does the right
> thing.

Yeah, I do recall we had quite a lot of design discussions around
"triangular" workflow when we introduced these facilities, and if I
am not mistaken, the above is the way they are designed to be used.

Thanks for an example.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-11-04  3:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-30 18:39 git branch --edit-description a custom file Denton Liu
2019-10-30 20:28 ` Jeff King
2019-10-30 22:43   ` Denton Liu
2019-10-31  6:18     ` Jeff King
2019-10-31 10:22       ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-10-31 11:00         ` Phillip Wood
2019-10-31 11:30           ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-10-31 13:45             ` Philip Oakley
2019-10-31 15:42               ` Jeff King
2019-11-03 17:56                 ` Philip Oakley
2019-11-04 19:50                   ` Jeff King
2019-11-04  3:21                 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2019-10-31 18:19         ` Denton Liu
2019-10-31 19:53           ` Phillip Wood
2019-10-31 20:07             ` Jeff King
2019-11-01 12:29               ` Phillip Wood
2019-11-01 16:49                 ` Jeff King
2019-11-01 20:35                   ` Phillip Wood
2019-11-02  4:53               ` Junio C Hamano
2019-10-31 17:35       ` Denton Liu
2019-10-31 18:06         ` Jeff King

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