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po ru com archive miscellaneous about search latest 2026 05 21 git push directly to another workstation you don t need github to work with git on multiple computers and you don t even need a git remote set up to do it sometimes i m working on some code that is incomplete or is speculative or there s another reason that i don t want to push it to the remote branch yet but i need to swap from my desktop to my laptop or vice versa git is a distributed version control system but i think people often forget what that implies a git repository can be as simple as a directory available via ssh which means that your other computer is already a git repository as long as you can ssh to it furthermore you don t have to go through the ceremony of setting your other computer up as a named git remote if you can ssh to it you can access it directly using a properly constructed url git push ssh mylaptop local path to repo you can do this for pull push fetch and any other command where you d normally use a named remote there are some caveats the remote directory has to have a git repository already if not you ll have to ssh in and create one with git init path to repo it will even create the intervening directories for you you can t by default push to the currently active branch on the remote create or use a different branch instead but most of the time i ve already been working on the same codebase on the other machine i have something that isn t quite ready yet so i make a work in progress commit on a new branch send it across and pick up where i left off older 2026 05 20 week 280 six days notice amazon sent me an email on 14 may to tell me that my old kindle would be completely unsupported starting may 20 2026 i e six days later more 2026 05 12 using a u2f key instead of a password on linux this is an update and expansion on something i wrote a few years ago about using my solokey u2f usb key for passwordless sudo more 2026 05 11 week 279 two out of three it was a short work week thanks to the bank holiday on monday i spent a few hours on monday typesetting various pieces of music i feel like i understand lilypond better and better more 2026 05 05 week 278 jack in the green may day fell on friday this year and what better way is there to celebrate workers than by not doing any work it was hot and sunny so i slathered on some sun cream put on a hat and went down to deptford to catch the jack in the green procession more older entries can be found in the archive email github mastodon subscribe my name is paul battley i live in rotherhithe in london and i work with software and the internet for a living po ru com is my personal website in which i write about my interests languages music programming food politics and anything else read more about me copyright paul battley 2002 2026