In this post, I found out that it was possible to create individual mappings for branch names so that pushing back to a central repository can be permanently mapped to a subtree, like:
- git master branch name: foo
- remote branch name: foo
git push origin fooon slave1 does the equivalent ofgit push origin foo:refs/slave1/foo
But the post implied that it’s not possible to do this on an automatic basis, e.g. specifying a wildcard map from refs/heads/* on the remote to refs/slave1/* on the master.
Well, is it possible?
I clone my repository in a ton of places, make changes on my devbox, and fetch those changes to the copy on the development server for testing. I end up making changes on the dev server and wanting to push them back, but I can’t push it with the same branch name because I have that branch checked out on the master. It would be nice to just configure the clone once to be smart about it.
If it’s not possible, this is a feature request and I’m pasting this URL to the git mailing list 🙂
I found the answer myself.
git config --add remote.origin.push +refs/heads/*:refs/MACHINENAME/*