Re: Creating new remote branch in git?

On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 10:54 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>> Excerpts from Bruce Momjian's message of lun jun 13 18:38:46 -0400 2011:
>> > Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>>
>> > > Is putting remotes in your ~/.gitconfig  good practice? I certainly
>> > > don't have any in mine.
>> >
>> > Putting 'github' in there allows me to push/pull from github branches
>> > without having to specify the github URL.
>>
>> I think his point is that they are more properly specified in each
>> repo's .git/config file, not the global $HOME/.gitconfig.  If you were
>> to check out some other, unrelated project, you could end up pushing
>> unrelated branches to PG's repo ...  Not sure if this is really
>> possible, but it certainly seems scary to do things that way.
>
> I understand now --- that it is risky to create an "origin" branch in
> ~/.gitconfig.  I am now using an alias:
>
>        [alias]
>                pgclone = clone ssh://git(at)gitmaster(dot)postgresql(dot)org/postgresql.git
>
> I assume the 'github' branch in ~/.gitconfig is fine.

That, too, would better off inside $REPO/.git/config, although it's
certainly less risky than the other one. It doesn't make much sense
to have an upstream that applies across every repository you have
checked out.

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