Usually, a local git repository tracks a default remote repository named origin. However, we also needs to work with multiple remote repositories in some cases.
When we folk a project from GitHub and want to fetch the latest changes from the original project, or when we work with a git mirror, or we have two IP of a same repository and the connections are not stable, we would need it.
E.g., we’ll add another remote repository named chengdu:
$ git remote add chengdu ssh://git@192.168.0.5:2345/repos/demo.git
List all remote repositories:
$ git remote --v
chengdu ssh://git@192.168.0.5:2345/repos/demo.git (fetch)
chengdu ssh://git@192.168.0.5:2345/repos/demo.git (push)
origin ssh://git@12.221.127.55:2345/repos/demo.git (fetch)
origin ssh://git@12.221.127.55:2345/repos/demo.git (push)
The abbr command git pull is not allowed when there are multiple remote repositories.
The remote repository must be filled in the command:
$ git pull chengdu master
or
$ git pull origin master
How to View the remote git URL?
List all remote repositories:
git remote -v
or list one:
git config --get remote.origin.urlgit remote get-url origin