The commit message will already be prepared for you, and will look something like this Merge branch 'main' of into main You should see that this will open your text editor to write a new commit message. In our case, we are going to pull changes from upstream main, so the command you should type is git pull upstream main Where is the name of the remote you want to use, and will be explained later, but in our case will always be main. To pull new changes that are committed to another repository, you use the git pull command. You should see that the new line has been added. Take a look in a web browser at the original super_project website. (if you are not in a live workshop then either watch the video, or fork and clone a friends repository and get them to make some changes) I will add a new line to planning/stage1.md and will commit and push that to the original GitHub repository… I will now make a change to the original remote repository. Why have we created a remote called upstream? The reason is that we can now use this to pull changes that were pushed to the original remote repository, and bring them down to the local working tree and local repository. This command set the URL for origin, and then the next command, git push -u origin main told git to use origin as the default label for git push commands. Indeed, you may remember from the first workshop that there was the command git remote add origin that was used as part of initialising the remote GitHub repository, that I told you to copy and paste without understanding. Origin is the name of the remote that is used by default for git clone and git push. Which, for me, shows fluffy_kitten (fetch)

You can get git to show more information using git remote -v You can list all of the remotes that have been set for your local repository by typing git remote And then git remote get-url fluffy_kitten Would add a remote called fluffy_kitten that maps to the URL of the original GitHub repository. You can add as many remotes as you wish, and call them anything you want, e.g. You will see /super_project.gitĪs you cloned your fork of super_project into your GitHub user space. You can find the URL associated with the name origin by typing git remote get-url originĪs I cloned the original GitHub repository.

This identifying name is a named git remote.įor example, origin is the name that is given by default to the URL from which you cloned a repository, and to which you will push changes. URLs are long and error-prone to type, so git provides a way to assign an identifying name to a URL. is the URL of the original super_project remote repository. A git remote is the URL (web address) of the remote git repository.

Git set upstream url