git-remote - manage set of tracked repositories
Manage the set of repositories ("remotes") whose branches you track.
With no arguments, shows a list of existing remotes. Several subcommands are available to perform operations on the remotes.
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 -t <branch> option, instead of the default glob refspec for the remote to track all branches under $GIT_DIR/remotes/<name>/, 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, $GIT_DIR/remotes/<name>/HEAD is set up to point at remote's <master> branch instead of whatever branch the HEAD at the remote repository actually points at.
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.
Remove the remote named <name>. All remote tracking branches and configuration settings for the remote are removed.
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.
Deletes all stale 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 -n option, the remote heads are not confirmed first with git ls-remote <name>; cached information is used instead. Use with caution.
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 get 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)).
The remote configuration is achieved using the remote.origin.url and remote.origin.fetch configuration variables. (See git-config(1)).
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
Written by Junio Hamano
Documentation by J. Bruce Fields and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
Part of the git(7) suite