Remote

Change remote

$ git remote set-url origin git@github.com:MichaelCurrin/cheatsheets.git

Add remote to a new repo

When you setup a repo like this, you won’t have any remotes.

$ git init

This should give nothing.

$ git remote -v

Add a remote.

$ git remote add origin git@github.com:MichaelCurrin/dev-cheatsheets.git

You can commit and push now.

You need to include the remote name and branch the first time you pull. Note you’ll get an error doing a pull on an empty remote.

$ git pull origin master

Then just:

$ git pull

Note that if you use VS Code to push, it will create the repo for you on GitHub without having to go through the GitHub UI.

Add remote for a fork

Give you have forked a repo and cloned it and it has this remote setup:

• origin git@github.com:MichaelCurrin/dev-cheatsheets.git.

If you want to pull in changes from the original repo into your fork, you can do this. The name upstream is a common name to use.

$ git remote add upstream git@github.com:SomeUsername/dev-cheatsheets.git`.

$ git checkout master

$ git pull upstream master
$ # Or
$ git reset --hard upstream master

Push your local commits to your fork.

$ git push