git remote add coworker git://path/to/coworkers/repo.git git fetch coworker git checkout –track coworker/foo This will setup a local branch foo, tracking the remote branch coworker/foo. So when your co-worker has made some changes, you can easily pull them: git checkout foo git pull Response to comments: Cool 🙂 And if I’d like to make my own … Read more
To avoid confusion, recent versions of git deprecate this somewhat ambiguous –set-upstream option in favor of a more verbose –set-upstream-to option with identical syntax and behavior. [ Reference ] git branch –set-upstream-to <remote-branch> sets the default remote branch for the current local branch. Any future git pull command (with the current local branch checked-out), will … Read more
You are getting this error because “origin” is not available. “origin” is a convention not part of the command. “origin” is the local name of the remote repository. For example you could also write: git remote add myorigin git@github.com:myname/oldrep.git git remote add testtest git@github.com:myname/oldrep.git See the manual: http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-remote.html To remove a remote repository you enter: … Read more
Here is a command that gives you all tracking branches (configured for ‘pull’), see: $ git branch -vv main aaf02f0 [main/master: ahead 25] Some other commit * master add0a03 [jdsumsion/master] Some commit You have to wade through the SHA and any long-wrapping commit messages, but it’s quick to type and I get the tracking branches … Read more
Instead of removing and re-adding, you can do this: git remote set-url origin git://new.url.here See this question: How to change the URI (URL) for a remote Git repository? To remove remote use this: git remote remove origin