git_remote.txt

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 | --auto | -d | --delete | <branch>)
       git remote set-branches [--add] <name> <branch>...
       git remote get-url [--push] [--all] <name>
       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
           Be a little more verbose and show remote url after name. NOTE:
           This must be placed between remote and subcommand.

COMMANDS
       With no arguments, shows a list of existing remotes. Several
       subcommands are available to perform operations on the remotes.

       add
           Adds a remote named <name> for the repository at <url>. The
           command git fetch <name> can then be used to create and update
           remote-tracking branches <name>/<branch>.

           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.

           By default, only tags on fetched branches are imported (see git-
           fetch(1)).

           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
           Rename the remote named <old> to <new>. All remote-tracking
           branches and configuration settings for the remote are updated.

           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
           Remove the remote named <name>. All remote-tracking branches and
           configuration settings for the remote are removed.

       set-head
           Sets or deletes the default branch (i.e. the target of the
           symbolic-ref refs/remotes/<name>/HEAD) for the named remote.
           Having a default branch for a remote is not required, but allows
           the name of the remote to be specified in lieu of a specific
           branch. For example, if the default branch for origin is set to
           master, then origin may be specified wherever you would normally
           specify origin/master.

           With -d or --delete, the symbolic ref refs/remotes/<name>/HEAD is
           deleted.

           With -a or --auto, 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
           Changes the list of branches tracked by the named remote. This
           can be used to track a subset of the available remote branches
           after the initial setup for a remote.

           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.

       get-url
           Retrieves the URLs for a remote. Configurations for insteadOf and
           pushInsteadOf are expanded here. By default, only the first URL
           is listed.

           With --push, push URLs are queried rather than fetch URLs.

           With --all, all URLs for the remote will be listed.

       set-url
           Changes URLs for the remote. Sets first URL for remote <name>
           that matches regex <oldurl> (first URL if no <oldurl> is given)
           to <newurl>. If <oldurl> doesn’t match any URL, an error occurs
           and nothing is changed.

           With --push, push URLs are manipulated instead of fetch URLs.

           With --add, instead of changing existing URLs, new URL is added.

           With --delete, instead of changing existing URLs, all URLs
           matching regex <url> are deleted for remote <name>. Trying to
           delete all non-push URLs is an error.

           Note that the push URL and the fetch URL, even though they can be
           set differently, must still refer to the same place. What you
           pushed to the push URL should be what you would see if you
           immediately fetched from the fetch URL. If you are trying to
           fetch from one place (e.g. your upstream) and push to another
           (e.g. your publishing repository), use two separate remotes.

       show
           Gives some information about the remote <name>.

           With -n option, the remote heads are not queried first with git
           ls-remote <name>; cached information is used instead.

       prune
           Deletes all stale remote-tracking branches under <name>. These
           stale branches have already been removed from the remote
           repository referenced by <name>, but are still locally available
           in "remotes/<name>".

           With --dry-run option, report what branches will be pruned, but
           do not actually prune them.

       update
           Fetch updates for a named set of remotes in the repository as
           defined by remotes.<group>. If a named group is not specified on
           the command line, the configuration parameter remotes.default
           will be used; if remotes.default is not defined, all remotes
           which do not have the configuration parameter
           remote.<name>.skipDefaultUpdate set to true will be updated. (See
           git-config(1)).

           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
       ·   Add a new remote, fetch, and check out a branch from it

               $ git remote
               origin
               $ git branch -r
                 origin/HEAD -> origin/master
                 origin/master
               $ git remote add staging git://git.kernel.org/.../gregkh/staging.git
               $ git remote
               origin
               staging
               $ git fetch staging
               ...
               From git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging
                * [new branch]      master     -> staging/master
                * [new branch]      staging-linus -> staging/staging-linus
                * [new branch]      staging-next -> staging/staging-next
               $ git branch -r
                 origin/HEAD -> origin/master
                 origin/master
                 staging/master
                 staging/staging-linus
                 staging/staging-next
               $ git checkout -b staging staging/master
               ...

       ·   Imitate git clone but track only selected branches

               $ 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-fetch(1) git-branch(1) git-config(1)

GIT
       Part of the git(1) suite

Git 2.7.4                        10/04/2017                    GIT-REMOTE(1)