HowTo: Push to multiple GIT repos with one command

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So, now that I have http://git.troglobit.com setup as a backup GIT repo to https://github.com/troglobit, I needed a simple way to always push to both repos – best way for me is to always hook into my regular work flow, otherwise I’d just forget. The git-remote(1) man page to the rescue, it describes the set-url --add sub-command:

git remote set-url --add origin ssh://git.troglobit.com:1234/srv/git/watchdogd.git

Now, with a simple git push followed by git push --tags I had now pushed to both the GitHub repo as well as my own server!

Obviously I don’t use port 1234, but that’s the syntax if you want to push to a GIT server over SSH on a different port than the default (22).

You can of course just edit the .git/config file instead, which in many cases might be faster:

[remote "origin"]
    fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
    url = git@github.com:troglobit/finit.git
    url = ssh://git.troglobit.com:1234/srv/git/finit.git

Of course I first had to create the empty watchdogd.git on the server. I do this quite often, so I’ve wrapped it in a makerepo.sh script:

cd /srv/git
git init --bare watchdogd.git
echo "Refurbished watchdog daemon from uClinux-dist" >watchdogd.git/description

To inspect your current push/pull repos, issue git remote -v:

origin	git@github.com:troglobit/watchdogd.git (fetch)
origin	git@github.com:troglobit/watchdogd.git (push)
origin	ssh://git.troglobit.com:1234/srv/git/watchdogd.git (push)