How can I pull from one remote and push to another with git?

Question

I have a contributor to my github repository who has a fork and is working on a branch. I want to pull their branch to my own branch and make modifications, but still track theirs.

Can I configure git so that while I'm on branch foo ,

• git pull pulls from contributor/foo and
• git push pushes to origin/foo

This is similar to but distinct from the question How can I push to one url and pull from another using one remote? because that question is looking to use the same remote name.

Answer 1

You can set the upstream branch to contributor/foo

git checkout foo
git branch -u foo contributor/foo

That supposes you have a remote contributor first:

git remote add contributor https://github.com/user/fork_repo

And you can make sure a git push is always done on origin :

git config remote.pushdefault origin