Question

I have read/write access to a repo on GitHub. I have a local clone of that repo. I’d like to be able to pull changes from that remote, but I should never push changes to it.

Is there a way I can mark the remote as read-only so I never accidentally type in the wrong command and push to it?

Answer 1

You could shut off default pushes via

git config push.default nothing

or for stronger protection on a specific remote you could break pushes to that remote entirely by e.g.

git config remote.origin.pushurl "you really didn't want to do that"