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 <branch>] [-m <master>] [-f] [--[no-]tags] [--mirror=<fetch|push>] <name> <url> git remote rename <old> <new> git remote remove <name> git remote set-head <name> (-a | -d | <branch>) git remote set-branches [--add] <name> <branch>... git remote set-url [--push] <name> <newurl> [<oldurl>] git remote set-url --add [--push] <name> <newurl> git remote set-url --delete [--push] <name> <url> git remote [-v | --verbose] show [-n] <name>... git remote prune [-n | --dry-run] <name>... 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 <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 --tags option, git fetch <name> imports every tag from the remote repository. With --no-tags option, git fetch <name> does not import tags from the remote repository. With -t <branch> option, instead of the default glob refspec for the remote to track all branches under the refs/remotes/<name>/ namespace, 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, a symbolic-ref refs/remotes/<name>/HEAD is set up to point at remote’s <master> branch. See also the set-head command. When a fetch mirror is created with --mirror=fetch, the refs will not be stored in the refs/remotes/ namespace, but rather everything in refs/ on the remote will be directly mirrored into refs/ in the local repository. This option only makes sense in bare repositories, because a fetch would overwrite any local commits. When a push mirror is created with --mirror=push, then git push will always behave as if --mirror was passed. rename 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, the symbolic ref refs/remotes/<name>/HEAD is deleted. With -a, the remote is queried to determine its HEAD, then the symbolic-ref refs/remotes/<name>/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 the symbolic-ref 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 <branch> to set the symbolic-ref refs/remotes/<name>/HEAD explicitly. e.g., "git remote set-head origin master" will set the symbolic-ref 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-branches Changes the list of branches tracked by the named remote. This can be used to track a subset of the available remote branches after the initial setup for a remote. The named branches will be interpreted as if specified with the -t option on the git remote add command line. With --add, instead of replacing the list of currently tracked branches, adds to that list. set-url Changes URL remote points to. Sets first URL remote points to matching regex <oldurl> (first URL if no <oldurl> is given) to <newurl>. If <oldurl> 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 <url> are deleted. Trying to delete all non-push URLs is an error. show 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. prune Deletes all stale remote-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 --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.<group>. 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.<name>.skipDefaultUpdate set to true will be updated. (See git-config(1)). With --prune option, prune all the remotes that are updated. $ 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) GIT Part of the git(1) suite Git 1.8.3.1 03/23/2016 GIT-REMOTE(1)