Re: Creating new remote branch in git?

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://git(at)gitmaster(dot)postgresql(dot)org/postgresql.git

I assume the 'github' branch in ~/.gitconfig is fine.

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