Setting up a Git remote repository
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
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