git - remote add origin vs remote set-url origin

Question

I create a new repository  git init echo  quot   MESSAGE quot   gt  gt  README md git add README md git commit -m  quot first commit quot   Then I want to push my commit to the empty remote repository created on github so I have to set remote  What is difference between using following commands     git remote add origin git github com User UserRepo git git remote set-url origin git github com User UserRepo git  At the end I perform push  git push -u origin master  What happens when I call git remote set-url origin just after git init  Does git remote set-url origin create origin  If origin already exists after git init there is no difference between using those commands in my scenario  right

User · Answer

if you have existing project and you would like to add remote repository url then you need to do following command

git init

if you would like to add readme.md file then you can create it and add it using below command.

git add README.md

make your first commit using below command

git commit -m "first commit"

Now you completed all local repository process, now how you add remote repository url ? check below command this is for ssh url, you can change it for https.

git remote add origin [email protected]:user-name/repository-name.git

How you push your first commit see below command :

git push -u origin master

User · Answer

To add a new remote  use the git remote add command on the terminal  in the directory your repository is stored at   The git remote set-url command changes an existing remote repository URL   So basicly  remote add is to add a new one  remote set-url is to update an existing one

User · Answer

Below will reinitialize your local repo  also clearing remote repos  ie origin    git init   Then below  will create  origin  if it doesn t exist   git remote add origin  repo-url    Else  you can use the set-url subcommand to edit an existing remote   git remote set-url origin  repo-url    Also  you can check existing remotes with   git remote -v   Hope this helps

User · Answer

You can not call remote set-url origin just after git init  Because the git remote set-url command will not  create origin  but it changes an existing remote repository URL  so the command git remote set-url will only work if you ve either cloned the repository or manually added a remote called origin  you can check remote with command git remote -v it will show remote url after name  or if this command gives error like fatal  Not a git repository  or any of the parent directories    git then the repository not exists  so you have to add origin with command git remote add 1  git remote add This command is used to add a new remote  you can use this command on the terminal  in the directory of your repository  The git remote add command takes two arguments   A remote name  for example  origin A remote URL  for example  https   github com user repo git  For example  git remote add origin https   github com user repo git  2 git remote set-url The git remote set-url command changes an existing remote repository URL  The git remote set-url command takes two arguments   An existing remote name  For example  origin or upstream are two common choices  A new URL for the remote  For example you can change your remote s URL from SSH to HTTPS with the git remote set-url command  git remote set-url origin https   github com USERNAME REPOSITORY git  you can verify that the remote URL has changed  with command git remote -v  note   quot origin quot  is a convention not part of the command   quot origin quot  is the local name of the remote repository  you can use any name instead of  quot origin quot   For example  git remote add myorigin git github com user repo git git remote set-url myorigin https   github com user repo git  References from github  remote add  remote set-url

User · Answer

git remote add    ADDS a new remote   git remote set-url    UPDATES existing remote      The remote name that comes after add is a new remote name that did not exist prior to that command  The remote name that comes after set-url should already exist as a remote name to your repository      git remote add myupstream someurl    myupstream remote name did not exist now creating it with this command   git remote set-url upstream someurl    upstream remote name already exist i m just changing it s url     git remote add myupstream https   github com nodejs node   gt    ADD   If you don t already have upstream git remote set-url upstream https   github com nodejs node     gt    UPDATE   url for upstream

User · Answer

When you run git remote add origin git github com User UserRepo git  then a new remote created named origin  When you run git remote set-url origin git github com User UserRepo git git searches for existing remote having name origin and change it s remote repository url  If git unable to find any remote having name origin  It raise an error fatal  No such remote  origin     If you are going to create a new repository then use git remote add origin git github com User UserRepo git to add remote

User · Answer

Try this   git init   git remote add origin your repo git   git remote -v   git status

User · Answer

1  git remote add origin git github com User UserRepo git  This command is the second step in the command series after you initialize git into your current working repository using git init  This command simply means  quot you are adding the location of your remote repository where you wish to push pull your files to from      quot  Your remote repository could be anywhere on github  gitlab  bitbucket  etc  Here origin is an alias alternate name for your remote repository so that you don t have to type the entire path for remote every time and henceforth you are declaring that you will use this name origin  to refer to your remote  This name could be anything  To verify that the remote is set properly type   git remote -v  OR git remote get-url origin 2  git remote set-url origin git github com User UserRepo git This command means that if at any stage you wish to change the location of your repository i e if you made a mistake while adding the remote path using the git add command  the first time  you can easily go back  amp   quot reset update  your current remote repository path quot  by using the above command  3  git push -u remote master This command simply pushes your files to the remote repository Git has a concept of something known as a  quot branch quot   so by default everything is pushed to the master branch unless explicitly specified an alternate branch  To know about the list of all branches you have in your repository  type  git branch

User · Answer

This is very simple If you have already set a remote origin url then you use set-url command to change that  otherwise simply use add command   git remote -v Check if any remote already exists If Yes then use git remote set-url origin git github com User UserRepo git to change the origin If No then use git remote add origin git github com User UserRepo git to set new origin for your repo  and finally use git push -u origin master to push your code to remote and add upstream  tracking  reference to your remote branch   NOTE  If you use -u flag  its for upstream  it enables you to use simply git pull instead of git pull origin  lt branch-name gt  in upcoming operations  Happy Coding

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below is used to a add a new remote   git remote add origin git github com User UserRepo git   below is used to change the url of an existing remote repository   git remote set-url origin git github com User UserRepo git   below will push your code to the master branch of the remote repository defined with origin and -u let you point your current local branch to the remote master branch   git push -u origin master   Documentation

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