1git-remote(1) 2============ 3 4NAME 5---- 6git-remote - manage set of tracked repositories 7 8 9SYNOPSIS 10-------- 11[verse] 12'git-remote' 13'git-remote' add <name> <url> 14'git-remote' show <name> 15'git-remote' prune <name> 16'git-remote' update [group] 17 18DESCRIPTION 19----------- 20 21Manage the set of repositories ("remotes") whose branches you track. 22 23 24COMMANDS 25-------- 26 27With no arguments, shows a list of existing remotes. Several 28subcommands are available to perform operations on the remotes. 29 30'add':: 31 32Adds a remote named <name> for the repository at 33<url>. The command `git fetch <name>` can then be used to create and 34update remote-tracking branches <name>/<branch>. 35 36'show':: 37 38Gives some information about the remote <name>. 39 40'prune':: 41 42Deletes all stale tracking branches under <name>. 43These stale branches have already been removed from the remote repository 44referenced by <name>, but are still locally available in 45"remotes/<name>". 46 47'update':: 48 49Fetch updates for a named set of remotes in the repository as defined by 50remotes.<group>. If a named group is not specified on the command line, 51the configuration parameter remotes.default will get used; if 52remotes.default is not defined, all remotes which do not the 53configuration parameter remote.<name>.skipDefaultUpdate set to true will 54be updated. (See gitlink:git-config[1]). 55 56 57DISCUSSION 58---------- 59 60The remote configuration is achieved using the `remote.origin.url` and 61`remote.origin.fetch` configuration variables. (See 62gitlink:git-config[1]). 63 64Examples 65-------- 66 67Add a new remote, fetch, and check out a branch from it: 68 69------------ 70$ git remote 71origin 72$ git branch -r 73origin/master 74$ git remote add linux-nfs git://linux-nfs.org/pub/nfs-2.6.git 75$ git remote 76linux-nfs 77origin 78$ git fetch 79* refs/remotes/linux-nfs/master: storing branch 'master' ... 80 commit: bf81b46 81$ git branch -r 82origin/master 83linux-nfs/master 84$ git checkout -b nfs linux-nfs/master 85... 86------------ 87 88See Also 89-------- 90gitlink:git-fetch[1] 91gitlink:git-branch[1] 92gitlink:git-config[1] 93 94Author 95------ 96Written by Junio Hamano 97 98 99Documentation 100-------------- 101Documentation by J. Bruce Fields and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. 102 103 104GIT 105--- 106Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite 107