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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Git branch
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 18:04:18 -0500
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Hi,

jhapk wrote:

> I manually enter the following lines in
> the .git/config files of A1 and A2
> [branch "branchA"]
>     remote = origin
>     merge = refs/heads/branchA
> 
> Then I create a branch in the bare repository B called branchA. Once this is
> done, all the push and pull works smoothly between the two repositories. 
> 
> Just wondering, is there a better way to do this? :)

Maybe something like the following would work.

>>From A1:

  git checkout -b branchA
  ... hack hack hack ...
  git push --set-upstream origin branchA
  ssh A2

>>From A2:

  git checkout -t origin/branchA