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 <h1>
 git-remote(1) Manual Page
 </h1>
 <h2>NAME</h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <p>git-remote -
  manage set of tracked repositories
 </p>
 </div>
 </div>
 <div id="content">
 <div class="sect1">
 <h2 id="_synopsis">SYNOPSIS</h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <div class="verseblock">
 <pre class="content"><em>git remote</em> [-v | --verbose]
 <em>git remote add</em> [-t &lt;branch&gt;] [-m &lt;master&gt;] [-f] [--[no-]tags] [--mirror=&lt;fetch|push&gt;] &lt;name&gt; &lt;url&gt;
 <em>git remote rename</em> &lt;old&gt; &lt;new&gt;
 <em>git remote remove</em> &lt;name&gt;
 <em>git remote set-head</em> &lt;name&gt; (-a | -d | &lt;branch&gt;)
 <em>git remote set-branches</em> [--add] &lt;name&gt; &lt;branch&gt;&#8230;
 <em>git remote set-url</em> [--push] &lt;name&gt; &lt;newurl&gt; [&lt;oldurl&gt;]
 <em>git remote set-url --add</em> [--push] &lt;name&gt; &lt;newurl&gt;
 <em>git remote set-url --delete</em> [--push] &lt;name&gt; &lt;url&gt;
 <em>git remote</em> [-v | --verbose] <em>show</em> [-n] &lt;name&gt;&#8230;
 <em>git remote prune</em> [-n | --dry-run] &lt;name&gt;&#8230;
 <em>git remote</em> [-v | --verbose] <em>update</em> [-p | --prune] [(&lt;group&gt; | &lt;remote&gt;)&#8230;]</pre>
 <div class="attribution">
 </div></div>
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect1">
 <h2 id="_description">DESCRIPTION</h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <div class="paragraph"><p>Manage the set of repositories ("remotes") whose branches you track.</p></div>
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect1">
 <h2 id="_options">OPTIONS</h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <div class="dlist"><dl>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 -v
 </dt>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 --verbose
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  Be a little more verbose and show remote url after name.
  NOTE: This must be placed between <code>remote</code> and <code>subcommand</code>.
 </p>
 </dd>
 </dl></div>
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect1">
 <h2 id="_commands">COMMANDS</h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <div class="paragraph"><p>With no arguments, shows a list of existing remotes. Several
 subcommands are available to perform operations on the remotes.</p></div>
 <div class="dlist"><dl>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 <em>add</em>
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
 Adds a remote named &lt;name&gt; for the repository at
 &lt;url&gt;. The command <code>git fetch &lt;name&gt;</code> can then be used to create and
 update remote-tracking branches &lt;name&gt;/&lt;branch&gt;.
 </p>
 <div class="paragraph"><p>With <code>-f</code> option, <code>git fetch &lt;name&gt;</code> is run immediately after
 the remote information is set up.</p></div>
 <div class="paragraph"><p>With <code>--tags</code> option, <code>git fetch &lt;name&gt;</code> imports every tag from the
 remote repository.</p></div>
 <div class="paragraph"><p>With <code>--no-tags</code> option, <code>git fetch &lt;name&gt;</code> does not import tags from
 the remote repository.</p></div>
 <div class="paragraph"><p>With <code>-t &lt;branch&gt;</code> option, instead of the default glob
 refspec for the remote to track all branches under
 the <code>refs/remotes/&lt;name&gt;/</code> namespace, a refspec to track only <code>&lt;branch&gt;</code>
 is created. You can give more than one <code>-t &lt;branch&gt;</code> to track
 multiple branches without grabbing all branches.</p></div>
 <div class="paragraph"><p>With <code>-m &lt;master&gt;</code> option, a symbolic-ref <code>refs/remotes/&lt;name&gt;/HEAD</code> is set
 up to point at remote&#8217;s <code>&lt;master&gt;</code> branch. See also the set-head command.</p></div>
 <div class="paragraph"><p>When a fetch mirror is created with <code>--mirror=fetch</code>, the refs will not
 be stored in the <em>refs/remotes/</em> namespace, but rather everything in
 <em>refs/</em> on the remote will be directly mirrored into <em>refs/</em> in the
 local repository. This option only makes sense in bare repositories,
 because a fetch would overwrite any local commits.</p></div>
 <div class="paragraph"><p>When a push mirror is created with <code>--mirror=push</code>, then <code>git push</code>
 will always behave as if <code>--mirror</code> was passed.</p></div>
 </dd>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 <em>rename</em>
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
 Rename the remote named &lt;old&gt; to &lt;new&gt;. All remote-tracking branches and
 configuration settings for the remote are updated.
 </p>
 <div class="paragraph"><p>In case &lt;old&gt; and &lt;new&gt; are the same, and &lt;old&gt; is a file under
 <code>$GIT_DIR/remotes</code> or <code>$GIT_DIR/branches</code>, the remote is converted to
 the configuration file format.</p></div>
 </dd>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 <em>remove</em>
 </dt>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 <em>rm</em>
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
 Remove the remote named &lt;name&gt;. All remote-tracking branches and
 configuration settings for the remote are removed.
 </p>
 </dd>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 <em>set-head</em>
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
 Sets or deletes the default branch (i.e. the target of the
 symbolic-ref <code>refs/remotes/&lt;name&gt;/HEAD</code>) for
 the 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 <code>origin</code> is set to
 <code>master</code>, then <code>origin</code> may be specified wherever you would normally
 specify <code>origin/master</code>.
 </p>
 <div class="paragraph"><p>With <code>-d</code>, the symbolic ref <code>refs/remotes/&lt;name&gt;/HEAD</code> is deleted.</p></div>
 <div class="paragraph"><p>With <code>-a</code>, the remote is queried to determine its <code>HEAD</code>, then the
 symbolic-ref <code>refs/remotes/&lt;name&gt;/HEAD</code> is set to the same branch. e.g., if the remote
 <code>HEAD</code> is pointed at <code>next</code>, "<code>git remote set-head origin -a</code>" will set
 the symbolic-ref <code>refs/remotes/origin/HEAD</code> to <code>refs/remotes/origin/next</code>. This will
 only work if <code>refs/remotes/origin/next</code> already exists; if not it must be
 fetched first.</p></div>
 <div class="paragraph"><p>Use <code>&lt;branch&gt;</code> to set the symbolic-ref <code>refs/remotes/&lt;name&gt;/HEAD</code> explicitly. e.g., "git
 remote set-head origin master" will set the symbolic-ref <code>refs/remotes/origin/HEAD</code> to
 <code>refs/remotes/origin/master</code>. This will only work if
 <code>refs/remotes/origin/master</code> already exists; if not it must be fetched first.</p></div>
 </dd>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 <em>set-branches</em>
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
 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.
 </p>
 <div class="paragraph"><p>The named branches will be interpreted as if specified with the
 <code>-t</code> option on the <em>git remote add</em> command line.</p></div>
 <div class="paragraph"><p>With <code>--add</code>, instead of replacing the list of currently tracked
 branches, adds to that list.</p></div>
 </dd>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 <em>set-url</em>
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
 Changes URL remote points to. Sets first URL remote points to matching
 regex &lt;oldurl&gt; (first URL if no &lt;oldurl&gt; is given) to &lt;newurl&gt;. If
 &lt;oldurl&gt; doesn&#8217;t match any URL, error occurs and nothing is changed.
 </p>
 <div class="paragraph"><p>With <em>--push</em>, push URLs are manipulated instead of fetch URLs.</p></div>
 <div class="paragraph"><p>With <em>--add</em>, instead of changing some URL, new URL is added.</p></div>
 <div class="paragraph"><p>With <em>--delete</em>, instead of changing some URL, all URLs matching
 regex &lt;url&gt; are deleted. Trying to delete all non-push URLs is an
 error.</p></div>
 </dd>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 <em>show</em>
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
 Gives some information about the remote &lt;name&gt;.
 </p>
 <div class="paragraph"><p>With <code>-n</code> option, the remote heads are not queried first with
 <code>git ls-remote &lt;name&gt;</code>; cached information is used instead.</p></div>
 </dd>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 <em>prune</em>
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
 Deletes all stale remote-tracking branches under &lt;name&gt;.
 These stale branches have already been removed from the remote repository
 referenced by &lt;name&gt;, but are still locally available in
 "remotes/&lt;name&gt;".
 </p>
 <div class="paragraph"><p>With <code>--dry-run</code> option, report what branches will be pruned, but do not
 actually prune them.</p></div>
 </dd>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 <em>update</em>
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
 Fetch updates for a named set of remotes in the repository as defined by
 remotes.&lt;group&gt;. 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.&lt;name&gt;.skipDefaultUpdate set to true will
 be updated. (See <a href="git-config.html">git-config(1)</a>).
 </p>
 <div class="paragraph"><p>With <code>--prune</code> option, prune all the remotes that are updated.</p></div>
 </dd>
 </dl></div>
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect1">
 <h2 id="_discussion">DISCUSSION</h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <div class="paragraph"><p>The remote configuration is achieved using the <code>remote.origin.url</code> and
 <code>remote.origin.fetch</code> configuration variables. (See
 <a href="git-config.html">git-config(1)</a>).</p></div>
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect1">
 <h2 id="_examples">Examples</h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <div class="ulist"><ul>
 <li>
 <p>
 Add a new remote, fetch, and check out a branch from it
 </p>
 <div class="listingblock">
 <div class="content">
 <pre><code>$ git remote
 origin
 $ git branch -r
  origin/HEAD -&gt; origin/master
  origin/master
 $ git remote add staging git://git.kernel.org/.../gregkh/staging.git
 $ git remote
 origin
 staging
 $ git fetch staging
 ...
 From git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging
  * [new branch] master -&gt; staging/master
  * [new branch] staging-linus -&gt; staging/staging-linus
  * [new branch] staging-next -&gt; staging/staging-next
 $ git branch -r
  origin/HEAD -&gt; origin/master
  origin/master
  staging/master
  staging/staging-linus
  staging/staging-next
 $ git checkout -b staging staging/master
 ...</code></pre>
 </div></div>
 </li>
 <li>
 <p>
 Imitate <em>git clone</em> but track only selected branches
 </p>
 <div class="listingblock">
 <div class="content">
 <pre><code>$ 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</code></pre>
 </div></div>
 </li>
 </ul></div>
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect1">
 <h2 id="_see_also">SEE ALSO</h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <div class="paragraph"><p><a href="git-fetch.html">git-fetch(1)</a>
 <a href="git-branch.html">git-branch(1)</a>
 <a href="git-config.html">git-config(1)</a></p></div>
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect1">
 <h2 id="_git">GIT</h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <div class="paragraph"><p>Part of the <a href="git.html">git(1)</a> suite</p></div>
 </div>
 </div>
 </div>
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