Alvaro Herrera wrote: > Excerpts from Bruce Momjian's message of lun jun 13 18:38:46 -0400 2011: > > Andrew Dunstan wrote: > > > > Is putting remotes in your ~/.gitconfig good practice? I certainly > > > don't have any in mine. > > > > Putting 'github' in there allows me to push/pull from github branches > > without having to specify the github URL. > > I think his point is that they are more properly specified in each > repo's .git/config file, not the global $HOME/.gitconfig. If you were > to check out some other, unrelated project, you could end up pushing > unrelated branches to PG's repo ... Not sure if this is really > possible, but it certainly seems scary to do things that way.
I understand now --- that it is risky to create an "origin" branch in ~/.gitconfig. I am now using an alias: [alias] pgclone = clone ssh://g...@gitmaster.postgresql.org/postgresql.git I assume the 'github' branch in ~/.gitconfig is fine. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + It's impossible for everything to be true. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers