How do you organise multiple git repositories, so that all of them are backed up together?

Question

With SVN, I had a single big repository I kept on a server, and checked-out on a few machines. This was a pretty good backup system, and allowed me easily work on any of the

Answer 1

I want to add to Damien's answer where he recommends:

$ for remote in origin github memorystick; do git push $remote; done

You can set up a special remote to push to all the individual real remotes with 1 command; I found it at http://marc.info/?l=git&m=116231242118202&w=2:

So for "git push" (where it makes sense to push the same branches multiple times), you can actually do what I do:

• .git/config contains:

  [remote "all"]
  url = master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
  url = login.osdl.org:linux-2.6.git
  

• and now git push all master will push the "master" branch to both
  of those remote repositories.

You can also save yourself typing the URLs twice by using the contruction:

[url ""]
    insteadOf =