git-remote

Here's the contents of the remote and branch sections of my .git/config file. [remote "origin"] url = https://EvanAad@bitbucket.org/EvanAad/bitbucketstationlocations.git fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/* [branch "master"] remote = origin merge = refs/heads/master What is the meaning and purpose of the contents of these sections, in particular the fetch and merge subsections? How is this information used by Git to guide its operation? CodeWizard Its called refspec. Its the mechmism that git is using to "talk" to the remote server and to map local branches to remote branches. Refspecs

I want to move my remote git repository and all its branches to a new remote repository. old remote = git@github.com:thunderrabbit/thunderrabbit.github.com.git new remote = git@newhub.example.net:tr/tr.newrepo.git So what none of these other answers explains too well is that if you want to move all of your remote repository's branches to a new remote using Git's push mechanism, then you need local branch versions of each of your remote's branches. You can use git branch to create local branches. That will create a branch reference under your .git/refs/heads/ directory, where all of your local

I've been wondering if there's an easy way to push and pull a local branch with a remote branch with a different name without always specifying both names. For example: $ git clone myrepo.git $ git checkout -b newb $ ... $ git commit -m "Some change" $ git push origin newb:remote_branch_name Now if someone updates remote_branch_name, I can: $ git pull And everything is merged / fast-forwarded. However, if I make changes in my local "newb", I can't: $ git push Instead, I have to: % git push origin newb:remote_branch_name Seems a little silly. If git-pull uses git-config branch.newb.merge to

Problem: I want a way of deleting all the local branches I have that do not have a remote. It's easy enough to pipe the names of the branches into a git branch -D {branch_name} , but how do I get that list in the first place? For example: I create a new branch with no remote: $ git co -b no_upstream I list all my branches, there's only 1 with a remote $ git branch -a master * no_upstream remotes/origin/HEAD -> origin/master remotes/origin/master What command can I run to get no_upstream as an answer? I can run git rev-parse --abbrev-ref --symbolic-full-name @{u} and that will show that it has

I searched for a while but I can't find a solution to my Problem. I have a Server I can connect to via ssh with the username git and a local git repository. Now I want to push my local repository to a newly created one on the Server. Here is what I did: created a git repository in /home/git/test.git initialized the repository as bare added the remote repository on the local machine git remote add test ssh://git@serverIp:/home/git/test.git now I executed the push command: git push test master I always get the fatal: could not read from remote repository Please make sure you have the correct

Why am I getting this error when my git repository url is correct? EDIT: fatal: 'git@skarp.beanstalkapp.com/gittest.git' does not appear to be a git repository fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly You've got the syntax for the scp -style way of specifying a repository slightly wrong - it has to be: [user@]host.xz:path/to/repo.git/ ... as you can see in the git clone documentation. You should use instead the URL: git@skarp.beanstalkapp.com:/gittest.git i.e. in the URL you're using, you missed out the : (colon) To update the URL for origin you could do: git remote set-url origin git@skarp