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)
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