Assign a remote for Git Push

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I've been developing in a local repository for a while and just set up a git server.

In the past, when the remote repo already exists, I can do a git clone, and then future git push just works -- it seems to be associated with the remote that git clone retrieved.

Since I want to push all my existing work to this fresh remote, I did a git remote add foo. But git push still doesn't work, I have to do a git push foo master.

How can I make foo master be the default so that git push works on it's own? And secondly, did I approach this in the right way? How would you populate a new remote repo with an existing local repo?

ndim · Accepted Answer · 2010-12-01 06:50:46Z

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If you want git push to push to a remote without any additional parameters, rename that remote from foo to origin.

answered Dec 1, 2010 at 6:50

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Tyler Over a year ago

If you really want it to be called foo then you could make an alias for pushing to foo. Look for alias.* on kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-config.html

Michael Mrozek · Accepted Answer · 2010-12-01 06:27:25Z

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By default git push will try to push to a remote called origin, which is automatically created by git clone to point to the repository you cloned from. There's probably a git command to set a branch's remote, but I don't know it; you can edit .git/config manually though. Find the section for the branch you're pushing from (e.g. [branch "master"] if it's the master branch), and change remote = origin to remote = foo

answered Dec 1, 2010 at 6:27

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Thiago Ganzarolli Over a year ago

You can use 'git remote rename <old_name> <new_name>' To erase the old origin and make foo the new one 'git remote rm origin' 'git remote rename foo origin'

Tom Belote · Accepted Answer · 2010-12-01 06:29:06Z

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You need to set the remote origin url:

git config --get remote.origin.url
git config --edit

answered Dec 1, 2010 at 6:29

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