Jun 10, 2015

Git commands recap : Working with remote repository (add, rename and delete remote repositories )

Nikhil Ranjan June 10, 2015 git No comments

Fork a brach from main repo and configure remote as origin(forked/cloned) & upstream(main repo)

Here I have forked from "https://github.com/MaxKHK/Udacity_DeepLearningAssignments" in my and created in my Git a forked branch.

Forked branch is: https://github.com/zytham/Udacity_DeepLearningAssignments.git

1. Setup origin : Initialise a directory with git features (git init)

➜  devinline-git-recap git init
Initialized empty Git repository in /Users/n0r0082/devinline-git-recap/.git/
➜  devinline-git-recap git:(master) git remote add origin https://github.com/zytham/Udacity_DeepLearningAssignments.git

Note: Alternatively we could have directly cloned the forked repo using command :
git clone <https://github.com/zytham/Udacity_DeepLearningAssignments.git>

2. List the configured remote repository for fork :

➜  devinline-git-recap git:(master) git remote -v
origin https://github.com/zytham/Udacity_DeepLearningAssignments.git (fetch)
origin https://github.com/zytham/Udacity_DeepLearningAssignments.git (push)

3. Setup upstream and Verify the new upstream repository : Remote upstream repository that will be synced with the fork.

➜  devinline-git-recap git:(master) git remote add upstream https://github.com/MaxKHK/Udacity_DeepLearningAssignments.git
➜  devinline-git-recap git:(master) git remote -v                                                                        
origin https://github.com/zytham/Udacity_DeepLearningAssignments.git (fetch)
origin https://github.com/zytham/Udacity_DeepLearningAssignments.git (push)
upstream https://github.com/MaxKHK/Udacity_DeepLearningAssignments.git (fetch)
upstream https://github.com/MaxKHK/Udacity_DeepLearningAssignments.git (push)

Note: Instead of remote name as origin and upstream we can use any name, but by convention if using just two remote repository we use origin and upstream.
origin — that is the default name Git gives to the server you cloned from.

Renaming and Removing Remote

git remote rename <OLD_NAME> <NEW_NAME>

git remote remove <REMOTE_NAME>

Rename remote

➜  devinline-git-recap git:(master) ✗ git remote -v  
origin https://github.com/zytham/Udacity_DeepLearningAssignments.git (fetch)
origin https://github.com/zytham/Udacity_DeepLearningAssignments.git (push)
upstream https://github.com/MaxKHK/Udacity_DeepLearningAssignments.git (fetch)
upstream https://github.com/MaxKHK/Udacity_DeepLearningAssignments.git (push)
➜  devinline-git-recap git:(master) ✗ git remote rename upstream upstr
➜  devinline-git-recap git:(master) ✗ git remote -v                   
origin https://github.com/zytham/Udacity_DeepLearningAssignments.git (fetch)
origin https://github.com/zytham/Udacity_DeepLearningAssignments.git (push)
upstr https://github.com/MaxKHK/Udacity_DeepLearningAssignments.git (fetch)
upstr https://github.com/MaxKHK/Udacity_DeepLearningAssignments.git (push)

Delete remote

➜  devinline-git-recap git:(master) ✗ git remote -v  
origin https://github.com/zytham/Udacity_DeepLearningAssignments.git (fetch)
origin https://github.com/zytham/Udacity_DeepLearningAssignments.git (push)
upstream https://github.com/MaxKHK/Udacity_DeepLearningAssignments.git (fetch)
upstream https://github.com/MaxKHK/Udacity_DeepLearningAssignments.git (push)
➜  devinline-git-recap git:(master) ✗ git remote remove upstr 
➜  devinline-git-recap git:(master) ✗ git remote -v
origin https://github.com/zytham/Udacity_DeepLearningAssignments.git (fetch)
origin https://github.com/zytham/Udacity_DeepLearningAssignments.git (push)