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This article will explain how to add or delete remote repositories.

A remote repository is a project hosted somewhere, such as Github/Gitlab.

Adding a remote repository allows us to use a short name (alias) to execute commands instead of typing the entire remote URL.

$ git fetch git@github.com:stwarts/git-demo.git
From github.com:stwarts/git-demo
 * branch            HEAD       -> FETCH_HEAD

A default remote name called git cloneis automatically set when using .origin

Its value is the cloned repository.

$ git clone git@github.com:stwarts/git-demo.git
Cloning into 'git-demo'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 3, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (3/3), done.
remote: Total 3 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 0
Receiving objects: 100% (3/3), done.
$ cd git-demo
$ git remote -v
origin git@github.com:stwarts/git-demo.git (fetch)
origin git@github.com:stwarts/git-demo.git (push)

Use git remote -vto list details of all remotes; to show just the names, use git remote.

• -vOption stands for --verbose, it displays the corresponding URL for each name.

$ git remote
origin
$ git remote -v
origin git@github.com:stwarts/git-demo.git (fetch)
origin git@github.com:stwarts/git-demo.git (push)

When initializing the repository locally, we need to explicitly add the remote.

git remote add <name> <url>

$ git remote add alice_git_demo git@github.com:alice/git-demo.git
$ git remote -v
alice_git_demo git@github.com:alice/git-demo.git (fetch)
alice_git_demo git@github.com:alice/git-demo.git (push)
origin git@github.com:stwarts/git-demo.git (fetch)
origin git@github.com:stwarts/git-demo.git (push)

We can git remote rename <old> <new>rename an existing remote by running .

$ git remote rename alice_git_demo stwarts_git_demo
origin git@github.com:stwarts/git-demo.git (fetch)
origin git@github.com:stwarts/git-demo.git (push)
stwarts_git_demo git@github.com:alice/git-demo.git (fetch)
stwarts_git_demo git@github.com:alice/git-demo.git (push)

Use git remote remove <name>to remove a tracked repository.

$ git remote remove stwarts_git_demo
$ git remote remove origin
$ git remote add stwarts_git_demo git@github.com:stwarts/git-demo.git
$ git remote -v
stwarts_git_demo git@github.com:stwarts/git-demo.git (fetch)
stwarts_git_demo git@github.com:stwarts/git-demo.git (push)

stwarts_git_demoThe name is ready for sharing data.

$ git fetch stwarts_git_demo
From github.com:stwarts/git-demo
 * [new branch]      main       -> stwarts_git_demo/main
$ touch file.txt
$ git add file.txt && git commit -m 'Add file.txt'
[main 80bf058] Add file.txt
 1 file changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 file.txt
$ git push stwarts_git_demo main
Enumerating objects: 4, done.
Counting objects: 100% (4/4), done.
Delta compression using up to 12 threads
Compressing objects: 100% (2/2), done.
Writing objects: 100% (3/3), 281 bytes | 93.00 KiB/s, done.
Total 3 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
To github.com:stwarts/git-demo.git
   dd38fe8..80bf058  main -> main