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GIT-REMOTE(1) | Git Manual | GIT-REMOTE(1) |
NAME¶
git-remote - manage set of tracked repositories
SYNOPSIS¶
git remote [-v | --verbose] git remote add [-t <branch>] [-m <master>] [-f] [--[no-]tags] [--mirror=<fetch|push>] <name> <url> git remote rename <old> <new> git remote remove <name> git remote set-head <name> (-a | -d | <branch>) git remote set-branches [--add] <name> <branch>... git remote set-url [--push] <name> <newurl> [<oldurl>] git remote set-url --add [--push] <name> <newurl> git remote set-url --delete [--push] <name> <url> git remote [-v | --verbose] show [-n] <name>... git remote prune [-n | --dry-run] <name>... git remote [-v | --verbose] update [-p | --prune] [(<group> | <remote>)...]
DESCRIPTION¶
Manage the set of repositories ("remotes") whose branches you track.
OPTIONS¶
-v, --verbose
COMMANDS¶
With no arguments, shows a list of existing remotes. Several subcommands are available to perform operations on the remotes.
add
With -f option, git fetch <name> is run immediately after the remote information is set up.
With --tags option, git fetch <name> imports every tag from the remote repository.
With --no-tags option, git fetch <name> does not import tags from the remote repository.
With -t <branch> option, instead of the default glob refspec for the remote to track all branches under the refs/remotes/<name>/ namespace, a refspec to track only <branch> is created. You can give more than one -t <branch> to track multiple branches without grabbing all branches.
With -m <master> option, a symbolic-ref refs/remotes/<name>/HEAD is set up to point at remote’s <master> branch. See also the set-head command.
When a fetch mirror is created with --mirror=fetch, the refs will not be stored in the refs/remotes/ namespace, but rather everything in refs/ on the remote will be directly mirrored into refs/ in the local repository. This option only makes sense in bare repositories, because a fetch would overwrite any local commits.
When a push mirror is created with --mirror=push, then git push will always behave as if --mirror was passed.
rename
In case <old> and <new> are the same, and <old> is a file under $GIT_DIR/remotes or $GIT_DIR/branches, the remote is converted to the configuration file format.
remove, rm
set-head
With -d, the symbolic ref refs/remotes/<name>/HEAD is deleted.
With -a, the remote is queried to determine its HEAD, then the symbolic-ref refs/remotes/<name>/HEAD is set to the same branch. e.g., if the remote HEAD is pointed at next, "git remote set-head origin -a" will set the symbolic-ref refs/remotes/origin/HEAD to refs/remotes/origin/next. This will only work if refs/remotes/origin/next already exists; if not it must be fetched first.
Use <branch> to set the symbolic-ref refs/remotes/<name>/HEAD explicitly. e.g., "git remote set-head origin master" will set the symbolic-ref refs/remotes/origin/HEAD to refs/remotes/origin/master. This will only work if refs/remotes/origin/master already exists; if not it must be fetched first.
set-branches
The named branches will be interpreted as if specified with the -t option on the git remote add command line.
With --add, instead of replacing the list of currently tracked branches, adds to that list.
set-url
With --push, push URLs are manipulated instead of fetch URLs.
With --add, instead of changing some URL, new URL is added.
With --delete, instead of changing some URL, all URLs matching regex <url> are deleted. Trying to delete all non-push URLs is an error.
show
With -n option, the remote heads are not queried first with git ls-remote <name>; cached information is used instead.
prune
With --dry-run option, report what branches will be pruned, but do not actually prune them.
update
With --prune option, prune all the remotes that are updated.
DISCUSSION¶
The remote configuration is achieved using the remote.origin.url and remote.origin.fetch configuration variables. (See git-config(1)).
EXAMPLES¶
$ git remote origin $ git branch -r origin/master $ git remote add linux-nfs git://linux-nfs.org/pub/linux/nfs-2.6.git $ git remote linux-nfs origin $ git fetch * refs/remotes/linux-nfs/master: storing branch 'master' ...
commit: bf81b46 $ git branch -r origin/master linux-nfs/master $ git checkout -b nfs linux-nfs/master ...
$ mkdir project.git $ cd project.git $ git init $ git remote add -f -t master -m master origin git://example.com/git.git/ $ git merge origin
SEE ALSO¶
GIT¶
Part of the git(1) suite
05/23/2023 | Git 1.8.3.1 |