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Development Tools Introduction to Git GitHub and Other Remote Repositories Pulling Changes

Posted by Carlo Hogeveen
Carlo Hogeveen
10,584 Points

"git remote" gives useless "origin"

In reference to the "Pulling Changes" video in the "Introduction to Git" course. The context is a "myclone" repo, that was cloned from a "medals" repo. In this lesson we "learned", that "git remote" tells us that "myclone" was cloned from "origin", and we can pull changes with "git pull [origin]". The obvious question is, is there a way to find out the truth, that the "myclose" repo was cloned from the "medals" repo, and that it has the "medals" repo as remote repo?

2 Answers

Seth Kroger
Seth Kroger
56,414 Points
Seth Kroger
Seth Kroger
56,414 Points

The verbose flag, -v or --verbose, will give you more detail and list where the remotes are pointing to.

Carlo Hogeveen
Carlo Hogeveen
10,584 Points
Carlo Hogeveen
Carlo Hogeveen
10,584 Points

That was the missing info. Thanks!