git-remote

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 ] [-m ] [-f] [--mirror]  
       git remote rename  
       git remote rm 
       git remote set-head  (-a | -d | )
       git remote set-url [--push]   []
       git remote set-url --add [--push]  
       git remote set-url --delete [--push]  
       git remote [-v | --verbose] show [-n] 
       git remote prune [-n | --dry-run] 
       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  for the repository at . The command
           git fetch  can then be used to create and update
           remote-tracking branches /.

           With -f option, git fetch  is run immediately after the
           remote information is set up.

           With -t  option, instead of the default glob refspec for
           the remote to track all branches under $GIT_DIR/remotes//, a
           refspec to track only  is created. You can give more than
           one -t  to track multiple branches without grabbing all
           branches.

           With -m  option, $GIT_DIR/remotes//HEAD is set up to
           point at remote’s  branch. See also the set-head command.

           In mirror mode, enabled with --mirror, the refs will not be stored
           in the refs/remotes/ namespace, but in refs/heads/. This option
           only makes sense in bare repositories. If a remote uses mirror
           mode, furthermore, git push will always behave as if --mirror was
           passed.

       rename
           Rename the remote named  to . All remote tracking
           branches and configuration settings for the remote are updated.

           In case  and  are the same, and  is a file under
           $GIT_DIR/remotes or $GIT_DIR/branches, the remote is converted to
           the configuration file format.

       rm
           Remove the remote named . All remote tracking branches and
           configuration settings for the remote are removed.

       set-head
           Sets or deletes the default branch ($GIT_DIR/remotes//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, $GIT_DIR/remotes//HEAD is deleted.

           With -a, the remote is queried to determine its HEAD, then
           $GIT_DIR/remotes//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 $GIT_DIR/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  to set $GIT_DIR/remotes//HEAD explicitly. e.g.,
           "git remote set-head origin master" will set
           $GIT_DIR/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-url
           Changes URL remote points to. Sets first URL remote points to
           matching regex  (first URL if no  is given) to
           . If  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  are deleted. Trying to delete all non-push URLs is an
           error.

       show
           Gives some information about the remote .

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

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

           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.. 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..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/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
       git-fetch(1) git-branch(1) git-config(1)

AUTHOR
       Written by Junio Hamano

DOCUMENTATION
       Documentation by J. Bruce Fields and the git-list
       .

GIT
       Part of the git(1) suite

NOTES
        1. git@vger.kernel.org
           mailto:git@vger.kernel.org



Git 1.7.0.4                       12/03/2010                     GIT-REMOTE(1)