From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lorenzo Bettini Subject: Re: pushing remote branches Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 11:21:53 +0100 Message-ID: References: <2e24e5b90911141645n59680856ja21f2f3c7063f7c0@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Nov 15 11:22:41 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1N9cFf-0003Xz-UI for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Sun, 15 Nov 2009 11:22:36 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752629AbZKOKWZ (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Nov 2009 05:22:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752583AbZKOKWY (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Nov 2009 05:22:24 -0500 Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:53027 "EHLO lo.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752297AbZKOKWX (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Nov 2009 05:22:23 -0500 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1N9cFP-0003OV-AV for git@vger.kernel.org; Sun, 15 Nov 2009 11:22:19 +0100 Received: from 93.88.112.188 ([93.88.112.188]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 15 Nov 2009 11:22:19 +0100 Received: from bettini by 93.88.112.188 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 15 Nov 2009 11:22:19 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 93.88.112.188 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090817) In-Reply-To: <2e24e5b90911141645n59680856ja21f2f3c7063f7c0@mail.gmail.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Sitaram Chamarty wrote: > Hi Lorenzo, > > On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 5:07 AM, Lorenzo Bettini wrote: > >> url = git://... > >> isn't this enough to be able to push the experiments branch? > > not normally. > > The "git://" protocol is a read-only protocol by default. Since it is > completely unauthenticated, enabling push via git:// is not a good idea in > general. so probably I managed to push origin master anyway because gitorious asked me for my ssh passphrase? > >> url = git@... > > This is a shortcut for something like ssh://git@..., which then allows write > also. Thus, if I had [remote "origin"] fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/* url = git@... [branch "master"] remote = origin merge = refs/heads/master [branch "experiments"] remote = origin merge = refs/heads/experiments instead of [remote "origin"] fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/* url = git://... [branch "master"] remote = origin merge = refs/heads/master [branch "experiments"] remote = origin merge = refs/heads/experiments I would have been able to push also to branch experiments? Without having to add [remote "experiments"] url = git@... fetch = +refs/heads/experiments:refs/remotes/experiments/experiments ? thanks in advance Lorenzo -- Lorenzo Bettini, PhD in Computer Science, DI, Univ. Torino ICQ# lbetto, 16080134 (GNU/Linux User # 158233) HOME: http://www.lorenzobettini.it MUSIC: http://www.purplesucker.com http://www.myspace.com/supertrouperabba BLOGS: http://tronprog.blogspot.com http://longlivemusic.blogspot.com http://www.gnu.org/software/src-highlite http://www.gnu.org/software/gengetopt http://www.gnu.org/software/gengen http://doublecpp.sourceforge.net