A blog by Devendra Tewari
This post discusses useful git commands when working with multiple git remotes such as to share code with distributed teams.
We are all familiar with the clone command
git clone repository_url
This creates a local working copy of the remote, identified by the short name origin. You can see all the remote repositories in your working copy thus
git remote -v
The following command fetches commits from origin
git pull
The following command pushes local commits to origin
git push
What if you want to share your copy of the repository so that another team can work on it? Maybe to a new remote repository shared with that team?
This can be done as follows
git remote add repo_short_name repository_url
git push repo_short_name main
You can pull changes from the new repository
git pull repo_short_name main
And push them to origin (origin is assumed if not specified)
git push origin
If a remote has conflicting commits that you want to favor
git pull -s recursive -X theirs repo_short_name main
Pull and rebase on top of remote
git pull --rebase repo_short_name main
For more information on working with remote repositories see chapter 2 of the free Git book.
Once you have mastered the command line, you can do all of the same things using a Git client such as the free SourceTree app from the folks at Atlassian.