Diferent default remote for git pull and git push

Question

Is there a way to set up a git repository, so that git pull defaults to one remote and git push defaults to another? I know I can set both by changing the value of the remote variable in branch section of .git/config, but how to do it for each direction separately?

Answer 1

From what I can gather from the git config man page, the upstream repo is:

• by default origin
• set by branch.remote
• always for both git pull/fetch and git pull

For a given branch, I don't see any way to have two separate remote by default.

Answer 2

For Git 1.6.4 and later, set remote.<name>.pushurl with git config.

One might use this to pull using the read-only git: protocol and push using an ssh-based protocol.

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Say origin's url (remote.origin.url) is git://git.example.com/some/repo.git. It is read-only, but you have write access through the ssh-based ‘URL’ [email protected]:some/repo.git. Run the following command to effect pushing over the ssh-based protocol:

git config remote.origin.pushurl [email protected]:some/repo.git