git remote different remotes for fetch and push

Question

when I do git remote -v I get

origin  git@xxx.yyy.cc:name fetch)
origin  git@xxx.yyy.cc:name (push)

Why there are two separate entries for fetch and push remotes? What would be the case where someone would want a different remotes for these two actions?

Answer 1

As this helpful blog discusses, one case where you would want separate remotes for fetching and pushing is if you forked someone else's repository. In this case, you would want to pull from the main repository and then push to yours.