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 17DESCRIPTION 18----------- 19 20Manage the set of repositories ("remotes") whose branches you track. 21 22 23COMMANDS 24-------- 25 26With no arguments, shows a list of existing remotes. Several 27subcommands are available to perform operations on the remotes. 28 29'add':: 30 31Adds a remote named <name> for the repository at 32<url>. The command `git fetch <name>` can then be used to create and 33update remote-tracking branches <name>/<branch>. 34 35'show':: 36 37Gives some information about the remote <name>. 38 39'prune':: 40 41Deletes all stale tracking branches under <name>. 42These stale branches have already been removed from the remote repository 43referenced by <name>, but are still locally available in "remotes/<name>". 44 45 46DISCUSSION 47---------- 48 49The remote configuration is achieved using the `remote.origin.url` and 50`remote.origin.fetch` configuration variables. (See 51gitlink:git-config[1]). 52 53Examples 54-------- 55 56Add a new remote, fetch, and check out a branch from it: 57 58------------ 59$ git remote 60origin 61$ git branch -r 62origin/master 63$ git remote add linux-nfs git://linux-nfs.org/pub/nfs-2.6.git 64$ git remote 65linux-nfs 66origin 67$ git fetch 68* refs/remotes/linux-nfs/master: storing branch 'master' ... 69 commit: bf81b46 70$ git branch -r 71origin/master 72linux-nfs/master 73$ git checkout -b nfs linux-nfs/master 74... 75------------ 76 77See Also 78-------- 79gitlink:git-fetch[1] 80gitlink:git-branch[1] 81gitlink:git-config[1] 82 83Author 84------ 85Written by Junio Hamano 86 87 88Documentation 89-------------- 90Documentation by J. Bruce Fields and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. 91 92 93GIT 94--- 95Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite 96