How to make git repo remember all remotes?

Question

I have a git repo that is a fork of another repo. As a rule I will normally add a remote called upstream, which is the original repo I forked from.

$ git rem         


        

Answer 1

This is a slightly modified version of GoZoner's solution.

You need to capture the info about all the remotes from your repo's .git/config into a file that you could store outside your git repository. You also need to take care of updating this file every time you add a new remote. This can in fact be added to your git repo, so that the next clone or pull brings in this file.

Starting with git 1.7.10+, git supports including external config files.

So you can add the following lines to your repo's .git/config to include the external config file containing the remote info:

[include]
    path            = /dir1/dir2/repo-remotes.gitinfo