Git: Associate a Name with a URL

By Xah Lee. Date: .

Associate a Name with a URL

git remote add name url
Associate the name name to a remote source url. 
# cd to your project dir
cd ~/git/xah-fly-keys

# associate a name to a remote server, for the git project of current dir
git remote add xyz https://github.com/xahlee/xah-fly-keys

# push code to the url associated with the name xyz
git push xyz

What is Git “origin”

When you clone a project, that source is automatically given the name origin .

When you do git push or git pull without a url or name, “origin” is assumed.

List Git Remote URLS

cd to the repo, then

git remote -v

List Git Repo Names

You can see the list of naming in the directory .git/config of the project directory.

Example of a local git config file: 

[core]
	repositoryformatversion = 0
	filemode = true
	bare = false
	logallrefupdates = true
[remote "origin"]
	url = https://github.com/xahlee/xah-fly-keys.git
	fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
[branch "master"]
	remote = origin
	merge = refs/heads/master
	pushRemote = origin

git, pull, push