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git-remote(1) ============ NAME ---- git-remote - manage set of tracked repositories SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] '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:: 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. + 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`, 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':: 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. 'set-url':: Changes URL remote points to. Sets first URL remote points to matching regex <oldurl> (first URL if no <oldurl> is given) to <newurl>. If <oldurl> doesn't match any URL, error occurs and nothing is changed. + 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':: 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 linkgit: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 linkgit:git-config[1]). Examples -------- * Add a new remote, fetch, and check out a branch from it + ------------ $ 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 ... ------------ * 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 -------- linkgit:git-fetch[1] linkgit:git-branch[1] linkgit:git-config[1] GIT --- Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite