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From: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: git push refspec to specify tracking branch
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 23:24:50 -0400
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On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 10:24 PM, Kevin Ballard <kevin@sb.org> wrote:
> On Mar 30, 2010, at 6:19 PM, Avery Pennarun wrote:
>>=A0git push origin localbranchname:remotebranchname
>
> Yes that works, but it's annoying to type out every time, especially =
when my
> branch has a long name and I don't want to risk typos. Even worse, th=
e
> tab-completion in bash uses `git ls-remote` to complete the remote pa=
rt of
> refspecs, so it's even slower to type "foo:kba<tab>" than it is to ty=
pe
> "foo:kballard/foo".

You might consider creating a separate 'remote' entry then in your
=2Egit/config.  You should be able to reconfigure the refspec on that
one to use a particular branch name instead of a wildcard.  It's not
exactly pretty, but laziness will be laziness.

A similar option would be to just make a shell alias and be done with i=
t:

savebranch()
{
    git push origin $1:kballard-$1
}

Have fun,

Avery