[[!comment format=mdwn
 username="http://www.joachim-breitner.de/"
 nickname="nomeata"
 subject="comment 4"
 date="2011-12-13T18:16:08Z"
 content="""
I thought about this some more, and I think I have a pretty decent solution that avoids a central bare repository. Instead of pushing to master (which git does not like) or trying to guess the remote branch name on the other side, there is a well-known branch name, say git-annex-master. Then a sync command would do something like this (untested):

    git commit -a -m 'git annex sync' # ideally with a description derived from the diff
    git merge git-annex-master
    git pull someremote git-annex-master # for all reachable remotes. Or better to use fetch and then merge everything in one command?
    git branch -f git-annex-master # (or checkout git-annex-master, merge master, checkout master, but since we merged before this should have the same effect
    git annex merge
    git push someremote git-annex-master # for all reachable remotes

The nice things are: One can push to any remote repository, and thus avoid the issue of pushing to a portable device; the merging happens on the master branch, so if it fails to merge automatically, regular git foo can resolve it, and all changes eventually reach every repository.

What do you think?
    
"""]]