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Michael Currin •

Indeed, origin is the remote and the name origin is the default or convention.

after you clone, you can see your remote.

$ git remote
origin
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And you can see what it points to. You might use GitHub or BitBucket here.

$ git remote -v
origin  git@github.com:MichaelCurrin/daylio-csv-parser.git (fetch)
origin  git@github.com:MichaelCurrin/daylio-csv-parser.git (push)
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I guess you could make the fetch and push different but never had to do that.

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Michael Currin •

And if you are working on a fork, it is useful to have two remotes. One is "origin" for your fork. And one is named "upstream" usually and references to the original repo.

$ git remote add upstream git@github.com:abc/def.git
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$ git remote
upstream
origin
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Verbose

$ git remote -v
# original repo
upstream    git@github.com:abc/def.git (fetch)
upstream    git@github.com:abc/def.git (push)
# my fork
origin  git@github.com:MichaelCurrin/def.git (fetch)
origin  git@github.com:MichaelCurrin/def.git (push)
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Your push and pull operations will use origin by default

git checkout master
git pull # i.e. git pull origin master

git checkout my-feat
git pull # i.e. git pull origin my-feat

git push # i.e. git push origin my-feat
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And now you can pull the original repo into your fork!

git checkout master
git pull # origin master
git pull upstream master
git push # origin master
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Michael Currin •

I have notes here if you are interested

michaelcurrin.github.io/dev-cheats...

michaelcurrin.github.io/code-cookb...