Setting up a Fetch-Only Remote

2016-01-02

It may happen that you have a remote to which you have push rights but will never want to push. If you are afraid of pushing your changes to it by accident or just want to play it safe, this command may be of assistance:

git remote set-url upstream --push disallowed

This makes the push url of the upstream remote (use whatever name your remote has) an invalid address that will prevent accidental pushes.