[RFC/PATCH] Introduce branch.<name>.pushremote

This new configuration variable overrides the remote in
`branch.<name>.remote` for pushes.  It is useful in the typical
scenario, where the remote I'm pulling from is not the remote I'm
pushing to.  Although `remote.<name>.pushurl` is similar, it does not
serve the purpose as the URL would lack corresponding remote tracking
branches.

Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <redacted>
---
 This is a first cut.  There's code duplication at the moment, but I'm
 currently trying to figure out which other remote_get() calls to
 replace with pushremote_get().  Comments are welcome.

 I will leave it to future patches to do the following things:
 1. Fix the status output to be more meaningful when pushremote is
 set.  At the moment, I'm thinking statuses like [pull: 4 behind,
 push: 3 ahead] will make sense.
 2. Introduce a remote.pushDefault (peff)
 3. Introduce a remote.default (peff)

 Documentation/config.txt |  6 ++++++
 builtin/push.c           |  2 +-
 remote.c                 | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 remote.h                 |  2 ++
 4 files changed, 50 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 9b11597..0b3b1f8 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt

@@ -727,6 +727,12 @@ branch.<name>.remote::
        remote to fetch from/push to.  It defaults to `origin` if no remote is
        configured. `origin` is also used if you are not on any branch.

+branch.<name>.pushremote::
+       When in branch <name>, it tells 'git push' which remote to
+       push to.  It falls back to `branch.<name>.remote`, and
+       defaults to `origin` if no remote is configured. `origin` is
+       also used if you are not on any branch.
+
 branch.<name>.merge::
        Defines, together with branch.<name>.remote, the upstream branch
        for the given branch. It tells 'git fetch'/'git pull'/'git rebase' which

diff --git a/builtin/push.c b/builtin/push.c
index 42b129d..d447a80 100644
--- a/builtin/push.c
+++ b/builtin/push.c

@@ -322,7 +322,7 @@ static int push_with_options(struct transport *transport, int flags)
 static int do_push(const char *repo, int flags)
 {
        int i, errs;
-       struct remote *remote = remote_get(repo);
+       struct remote *remote = pushremote_get(repo);
        const char **url;
        int url_nr;

diff --git a/remote.c b/remote.c
index e53a6eb..d6fcfc0 100644
--- a/remote.c
+++ b/remote.c

@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ static int branches_nr;

 static struct branch *current_branch;
 static const char *default_remote_name;
+static const char *pushremote_name;
 static int explicit_default_remote_name;

 static struct rewrites rewrites;

@@ -363,6 +364,12 @@ static int handle_config(const char *key, const char *value, void *cb)
                                default_remote_name = branch->remote_name;
                                explicit_default_remote_name = 1;
                        }
+               } else if (!strcmp(subkey, ".pushremote")) {
+                       if (!value)
+                               return config_error_nonbool(key);
+                       branch->pushremote_name = xstrdup(value);
+                       if (branch == current_branch)
+                               pushremote_name = branch->pushremote_name;
                } else if (!strcmp(subkey, ".merge")) {
                        if (!value)
                                return config_error_nonbool(key);

@@ -700,6 +707,40 @@ struct remote *remote_get(const char *name)
        return ret;
 }

+struct remote *pushremote_get(const char *name)
+{
+       struct remote *ret;
+       int name_given = 0;
+
+       read_config();
+       if (name)
+               name_given = 1;
+       else {
+               if (pushremote_name) {
+                       name = pushremote_name;
+                       name_given = 1;
+               } else {
+                       name = default_remote_name;
+                       name_given = explicit_default_remote_name;
+               }
+       }
+
+       ret = make_remote(name, 0);
+       if (valid_remote_nick(name)) {
+               if (!valid_remote(ret))
+                       read_remotes_file(ret);
+               if (!valid_remote(ret))
+                       read_branches_file(ret);
+       }
+       if (name_given && !valid_remote(ret))
+               add_url_alias(ret, name);
+       if (!valid_remote(ret))
+               return NULL;
+       ret->fetch = parse_fetch_refspec(ret->fetch_refspec_nr, ret->fetch_refspec);
+       ret->push = parse_push_refspec(ret->push_refspec_nr, ret->push_refspec);
+       return ret;
+}
+
 int remote_is_configured(const char *name)
 {
        int i;

diff --git a/remote.h b/remote.h
index 251d8fd..aa42ff5 100644
--- a/remote.h
+++ b/remote.h

@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ struct remote {
 };

 struct remote *remote_get(const char *name);
+struct remote *pushremote_get(const char *name);
 int remote_is_configured(const char *name);

 typedef int each_remote_fn(struct remote *remote, void *priv);

@@ -130,6 +131,7 @@ struct branch {
        const char *refname;

        const char *remote_name;
+       const char *pushremote_name;
        struct remote *remote;

        const char **merge_name;
--

1.8.1.2.545.g2f19ada.dirty

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