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Development Tools Git Basics Working With Remote Repositories Pushing and Pulling

Jeetender Batra
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What is origin remote ? Explanation about it is not clear.

What is origin remote ? Explanation about it is not clear.

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Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
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Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
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Origin is the remote repo that your are going to work out of. Most of the time, you'll only be working with one remote repo, and so we set that to origin.

When you specify git push origin master, you're saying push to the master branch of my origin repo. You can check which repo is set up as origin by running git remote -v and it will return to you the origin url. You will usually add your origin repo at the beginning, or if you clone a repo, the origin is set for you as the repo you cloned from.

Here is a little more information:

https://help.github.com/articles/adding-a-remote/