1include::urls.txt[] 2 3REMOTES[[REMOTES]] 4------------------ 5 6The name of one of the following can be used instead 7of a URL as `<repository>` argument: 8 9* a remote in the git configuration file: `$GIT_DIR/config`, 10* a file in the `$GIT_DIR/remotes` directory, or 11* a file in the `$GIT_DIR/branches` directory. 12 13All of these also allow you to omit the refspec from the command line 14because they each contain a refspec which git will use by default. 15 16Named remote in configuration file 17~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 18 19You can choose to provide the name of a remote which you had previously 20configured using linkgit:git-remote[1], linkgit:git-config[1] 21or even by a manual edit to the `$GIT_DIR/config` file. The URL of 22this remote will be used to access the repository. The refspec 23of this remote will be used by default when you do 24not provide a refspec on the command line. The entry in the 25config file would appear like this: 26 27------------ 28 [remote "<name>"] 29 url = <url> 30 push = <refspec> 31 fetch = <refspec> 32------------ 33 34 35Named file in `$GIT_DIR/remotes` 36~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 37 38You can choose to provide the name of a 39file in `$GIT_DIR/remotes`. The URL 40in this file will be used to access the repository. The refspec 41in this file will be used as default when you do not 42provide a refspec on the command line. This file should have the 43following format: 44 45------------ 46 URL: one of the above URL format 47 Push: <refspec> 48 Pull: <refspec> 49 50------------ 51 52`Push:` lines are used by 'git-push' and 53`Pull:` lines are used by 'git-pull' and 'git-fetch'. 54Multiple `Push:` and `Pull:` lines may 55be specified for additional branch mappings. 56 57Named file in `$GIT_DIR/branches` 58~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 59 60You can choose to provide the name of a 61file in `$GIT_DIR/branches`. 62The URL in this file will be used to access the repository. 63This file should have the following format: 64 65 66------------ 67 <url>#<head> 68------------ 69 70`<url>` is required; `#<head>` is optional. 71 72Depending on the operation, git will use one of the following 73refspecs, if you don't provide one on the command line. 74`<branch>` is the name of this file in `$GIT_DIR/branches` and 75`<head>` defaults to `master`. 76 77git fetch uses: 78 79------------ 80 refs/heads/<head>:refs/heads/<branch> 81------------ 82 83git push uses: 84 85------------ 86 HEAD:refs/heads/<head> 87------------ 88 89 90 91