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I have a contributor to my github repository who has a fork and is working on a branch. I want to pull their branch to my own branch and make modifications, but still track theirs.

Can I configure git so that while I'm on branch foo,

  • git pull pulls from contributor/foo and
  • git push pushes to origin/foo

This is similar to but distinct from the question How can I push to one url and pull from another using one remote? because that question is looking to use the same remote name.

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Daenyth
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    Check this out. I think the answer to my question is exactly what you need: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7420662/git-mirror-on-pull-origin-on-push – G. Blake Meike Jun 21 '14 at 01:55
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    You can always just go `git push origin foo` ... actually I always use that form as it's more of a pain to recover from pushing to the wrong place than it is to type those things out – M.M Jun 21 '14 at 04:06

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You can set the upstream branch to contributor/foo

git checkout foo
git branch -u foo contributor/foo

That supposes you have a remote contributor first:

git remote add contributor https://github.com/user/fork_repo

And you can make sure a git push is always done on origin:

git config remote.pushdefault origin
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