Re: Starting a new project remotely

Daniel Barkalow [off-list ref] writes:

Is there something currently that acts like git-clone, except that it sets 
up automatic connections in the opposite direction? That is, you run it in 
a repository with no origin, and it pushes the data to the specified 
location (which probably needs to be set up already as an empty 
repository) and sets the local side's origin remote to the location given.

The "git push" command allows you to push into an empty or even
unrelated destination, but I do think there no wrapper that
creates remotes/ file.  BTW, calling that "origin" is probably
confusing.  In the scenario you outlined, your local side is the
source and the remote is the sink.

FYI, here is what I have in my remotes/ko file to interact with
my kernel.org repository (the one that is mirrored out to the
public machines):

        URL: zzz.kernel.org:/pub/scm/git/git.git/
        Push: master
        Push: +pu
        Push: maint
        Pull: master:refs/tags/ko-master
        Pull: +pu:refs/tags/ko-pu
        Pull: maint:refs/tags/ko-maint

and with this, I first run

	$ git fetch ko
	$ git show-branch master ko-master

to make sure I am not rewinding what I have already pushed out
by mistake, and then

	$ git push ko
        $ git push --tags ko ;# if I added a new tag