Pushing to multiple Git remotes at once Edit

Created 7/9/2021, updated 2 weeks ago

Example: pushing to canonical repo + GitHub mirror

For example, consider a clone of my dotfiles repo that has these two remotes, origin and github:

$ git remote -v
github  git@github.com:wincent/wincent.git (fetch)
github  git@github.com:wincent/wincent.git (push)
origin  git@git.wincent.dev:public/wincent.git (fetch)
origin  git@git.wincent.dev:public/wincent.git (push)

We can add a new all remote:

$ git remote add all git@git.wincent.dev:public/wincent.git

And then set two pushurl URLs for it:

$ git remote set-url --add --push all git@git.wincent.dev:public/wincent.git
$ git remote set-url --add --push all git@github.com:wincent/wincent.git

Yielding the following:

$ git remote -v
all     git@git.wincent.dev:public/wincent.git (fetch)
all     git@git.wincent.dev:public/wincent.git (push)
all     git@github.com:wincent/wincent.git (push)
github  git@github.com:wincent/wincent.git (fetch)
github  git@github.com:wincent/wincent.git (push)
origin  git@git.wincent.dev:public/wincent.git (fetch)
origin  git@git.wincent.dev:public/wincent.git (push)

This is the full config for the all remote as seen in the clone’s .git/config:

[remote "all"]
	url = git@git.wincent.dev:public/wincent.git
	fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/all/*
	pushurl = git@git.wincent.dev:public/wincent.git
	pushurl = git@github.com:wincent/wincent.git

When we push, we see (something like) the following, which shows the two remotes being processed in sequence:

$ git push all --dry-run
Everything up-to-date
Everything up-to-date

Example: publishing to this wiki

This is like the example above, but we now have three remotes:

The canonical repo (at git.wincent.dev).
The GitHub mirror.
The website itself, running on EC2.

I want to be able to run git publish and have it push to those, in that order.

Initial set-up

git remote add publish git@git.wincent.dev:public/content-repo.git
git remote set-url publish --add --push git@git.wincent.dev:public/content-repo.git
git remote set-url publish --add --push git@github.com:wincent/content-repo.git
git remote set-url publish --add --push content-user@content-host.example.net:/srv/content-repo/content

Verify it works

git push publish --dry-run

Use it

git push publish

Pushing to multiple Git remotes at onceEdit