39. What is origin?
Goals
- To learn about the naming of the remote repositories.
Run:
git remote
Result:
$ git remote origin
We see that the cloned repository knows the default name of the remote repository. To get more information about origin:
Run:
git remote show origin
Result:
$ git remote show origin * remote origin Fetch URL: /Users/alex/Documents/Presentations/githowto/auto/hello Push URL: /Users/alex/Documents/Presentations/githowto/auto/hello HEAD branch (remote HEAD is ambiguous, may be one of the following): style master Remote branches: style tracked master tracked Local branch configured for 'git pull': master merges with remote master Local ref configured for 'git push': master pushes to master (up to date)
We can see that the “origin” of the remote repository is the original hello repo. Remote repos are typically stored on a separate machine or a centralized server. However, as we see, they can also point to a repository on the same machine. There is nothing so special about the name “origin”, but there is a convention to use it for the primary centralized repository (if any).