Re: Creating new remote branch in git?

Robert Haas wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 10:54 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.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@gitmaster.postgresql.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.

Wouldn't I conceivably use github with a variety of projects?  I try to
use ~/.gitconfig so I don't have to redo a lot of stuff when I reinstall
my PG git tree.

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