From 0ab95b76a736f7b5091f7107cd906f2860dbfc72 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeremy Apthorp <nornagon@nornagon.net>
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2018 12:31:41 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] docs: add note about origin URLs to GN build docs (#14530)

---
 docs/development/build-instructions-gn.md | 12 +++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/docs/development/build-instructions-gn.md b/docs/development/build-instructions-gn.md
index cea4d8b98ce0..51428820b3d4 100644
--- a/docs/development/build-instructions-gn.md
+++ b/docs/development/build-instructions-gn.md
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ try to download a Google-internal version that only Googlers have access to).
 
 ## Cached builds (optional step)
 
-### GIT_CACHE_PATH
+### GIT\_CACHE\_PATH
 
 If you plan on building Electron more than once, adding a git cache will
 speed up subsequent calls to `gclient`. To do this, set a `GIT_CACHE_PATH`
@@ -38,6 +38,16 @@ $ mkdir -p "${GIT_CACHE_PATH}"
 # This will use about 16G.
 ```
 
+> **NOTE**: the git cache will set the `origin` of the `src/electron`
+> repository to point to the local cache, instead of the upstream git
+> repository. This is undesirable when running `git push`—you probably want to
+> push to github, not your local cache. To fix this, from the `src/electron`
+> directory, run:
+
+```sh
+$ git remote set-url origin https://github.com/electron/electron
+```
+
 ### sccache
 
 Thousands of files must be compiled to build Chromium and Electron.