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I've been working on a Mac using Sourcetree to manage my repositories. I've recently found an Ubuntu machine to develop on, and having found that Sourcetree isn't available for Ubuntu, found Gitkraken as a potential alternative.
My question is, is there any way to set a different remote repository in Gitkraken for pushes and pulls? (E.g. push to origin/develop pull from upstream/develop using the buttons on the top menubar). And if that isn't possible, is there a way to track a different remote branch from the one you are pushing/pulling from?
For example Sourcetree is set up so that local/develop tracks the remote branch upstream/develop, while pushing to the remote branch origin/develop. So if people make changes to the original repository, it'll show up in my Sourcetree and I'll know to pull from upstream/develop to local/develop. And if I make any changes, I can push my fork at origin/develop and create a pull request there to merge to upstream/develop if the changes are approved.
Also, in in Gitkraken if I right click upstream/develop there is an option to merge upstream/develop into develop that should take the most recent changes in upstream/develop and merge it into my local copy right? (God help me if suddenly I'm merging my local develop to upstream).
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Create a new branch with the branch, switch or checkout commands. Perform a git push with the –set-upstream option to set the remote repo for the new branch. Continue to perform Git commits locally on the new branch. Simply use a git push origin command on subsequent pushes of the new branch to the remote repo.
upstream generally refers to the original repo that you have forked. (see also "Definition of “ downstream ” and “ upstream ”" for more on upstream term) origin is your fork: your own repo on GitHub, clone of the original repo of GitHub.
Set upstream branch using the git push command with the -u extension or use the longer version --set-upstream . Replace <branch name> with your branch name. The test branch now has a set upstream branch.
I don't know how recently it is possible, but in version 6.0.0 of GitKraken, you can right-click on an origin and change push and pull paths independently.
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My question is, is there any way to set a different remote repository in Gitkraken for pushes and pulls?
There is no such feature AFAIK. When right-clicking a branch, you can select to Set Upstream. This results in the message What remote/branch should "<branch>" push to an pull from?, which implies that a branch can only be set to push and pull from the same upstream via GitKraken.
[...] is there a way to track a different remote branch from the one you are pushing/pulling from?
I do not understand what you mean by "track" here, since a branch tracking an upstream means it is using it to pull from and/or push to. As per definition here in section Tracking Branches, upstream and tracking branch are used synonymous, so I guess the answer is no:
[...]what is called a “tracking branch” (or sometimes an “upstream branch”).
Concerning your last question, you can calm down:
[...]if I right click upstream/develop there is an option to
merge upstream/develop into developthat should take the most recent changes in upstream/develop and merge it into my local copy right?
That's exactly what it does, just like a git merge upstream/develop when you have checked out your local develop.
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