I have git repositories in several places. Considering different forces I came to some personal conventions, that will, I hope help me to pull push from/to the correct place. I have for all the git repositories basically 4 categories of locals/remotes:

1. the working area. The working area can be on different machines, therefore I call these remotes as the machine name as well. It makes sense to have such remotes, as working on machine X, the Y will be a remote to X. So on each copy/mirror of the git repo, I will have a remote X, Y, Z…, where X,Y,Z… are the machine names I am working on. So far I am not sharing repos with other users on same machine. If that would be the case <machine>.<user> would probably make sense.

2. Git bare space. I call it simply “bare”. This is a remote for all other copies/mirrors that is somewhere on my local network. In my work-flow, I normally always pull/push here. I have some cron jobs, that do frequent pull push (if it is the case) with main repositories like github, or the projects origin.

3. Github and Gitorious.

4 Origin. I use this name for remote for projects that I do not keep a local copy/mirror bare repository. For these ones it really makes sense to think about the abstract remote pull/push.