How can I determine the URL that a local Git repository was originally cloned from

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I pulled a project from GitHub a few days ago  I ve since discovered that there are several forks on GitHub  and I neglected to note which one I took originally  How can I determine which of those forks I pulled

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The upstream s remote may not be called  origin   so here s a variation   remote   git config --get branch master remote  url   git config --get remote  remote url  basename   basename   url   git  echo  basename   Or   basename   git config --get remote   git config --get branch master remote  url   git   For more useful variables there s     git config -l

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If you do not know the name of the upstream remote for a branch  you can look that up first by inspecting the upstream branch name that the current branch was built upon  Use git rev-parse like this   git rev-parse --symbolic-full-name --abbrev-ref   upstream    This shows that upstream branch that was the source for the current branch  This can be parsed to get the remote name like this   git rev-parse --symbolic-full-name --abbrev-ref   upstream    cut -d   -f 1   Now take that and pipe it to git ls-remote and you ll get the URL of the upstream remote that is the source of the current branch   git ls-remote --get-url       git rev-parse --symbolic-full-name --abbrev-ref   upstream    cut -d   -f 1    Now it should be noted  that this is not necessarily the same as the source remote repository that was cloned from  In many cases however it will be enough

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I think you can find it under  git config and remote  origin   if you didn t manipulate that

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You cloned your repo with SSH clone  git config --get remote origin url git gitlab com company product production git  But you want to get http url to open it in the browser or share it  git config --get remote origin url   sed -e  s      g   sed -e  s ssh        g   sed -e  s git  https      g   https   gitlab com company product production git  GitHub or GitLab doesn   t matter

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I basically use   git remote get-url origin   It works for Git Bash command console or CMD command console in Windows  That said  it works with version 2 x of Git

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The Git URL will be inside the Git configuration file  The value corresponds to the key url   For Mac and Linux use the commands below    cd project dir  cat  git config   grep url   awk   print  3     For Windows open the below file in any text editor and find the value for key url   project dir  git config   Note  This will work even if you are offline or the remote git server has been taken down

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A simple way is to open the  git config file   cat  git config   To edit   vim  git config or  nano  git config

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With Git 2 7  release January 5th  2015   you have a more coherent solution using git remote   git remote get-url origin    nice pendant of git remote set-url origin  lt newurl gt    See commit 96f78d3  16 Sep 2015  by Ben Boeckel  mathstuf    Merged by Junio C Hamano -- gitster -- in commit e437cbd  05 Oct 2015       remote  add get-url subcommand      Expanding insteadOf is a part of ls-remote --url and there is no way   to expand pushInsteadOf as well    Add a get-url subcommand to be able to query both as well as a way to get all configured URLs    get-url       Retrieves the URLs for a remote    Configurations for insteadOf and pushInsteadOf are expanded here    By default  only the first URL is listed          With  --push   push URLs are queried rather than fetch URLs    With  --all   all URLs for the remote will be listed         Before git 2 7  you had    git config --get remote  REMOTE  url  git ls-remote --get-url  REMOTE   git remote show  REMOTE

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I prefer this one as it is easier to remember   git config -l   It will list all useful information such as   user name Your Name user email your name notexisting com core autocrlf input core repositoryformatversion 0 core filemode true core bare false core logallrefupdates true remote origin url https   github com mapstruct mapstruct-examples remote origin fetch  refs heads   refs remotes origin   branch master remote origin branch master merge refs heads master

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For me  this is the easier way  less typing      git remote -v origin    https   github com torvalds linux git  fetch  origin    https   github com torvalds linux git  push    actually  I ve that into an alias called s that does   git remote -v git status   You can add to your profile with  alias s  git remote -v  amp  amp  git status

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To supplement the other answers   If the remote has for some reason been changed and so doesn t reflect the original origin  the very first entry in the reflog  i e  the last entry displayed by the command git reflog  should indicate where the repo was originally cloned from   e g     git reflog   tail -n 1 f34be46 HEAD  0   clone  from https   github com git git      Bear in mind that the reflog may be purged  so this isn t guaranteed to work

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easy just use this command where you  git folder placed  git config --get remote origin url  if you are connected to network  git remote show origin  it will show you the URL that a local Git repository was originally cloned from   hope this help

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git config --list   This command will give all information related to your repository

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alias git-repo  quot git config --get remote origin url   sed -e  s      g   sed -e  s ssh        g   sed -e  s git  https      g  quot  alias git-pr  quot git config --get remote origin url   sed -e  s      g   sed -e  s ssh        g   sed -e  s git  https      g    sed  s            sed -ne  s     pulls  amp  p  quot   add this expresion to  zshrc or  bashrcs on main directory after you can use like git-repo git-pr

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With git remote show origin you have to be in the projects directory  But if you want to determine the URLs from anywhere else you could use   cat  lt path2project gt   git config   grep url   If you ll need this command often  you could define an alias in your  bashrc or  bash profile with MacOS   alias giturl  cat    git config   grep url    So you just need to call giturl in the Git root folder in order to simply obtain its URL     If you extend this alias like this  alias giturl  cat  git config   grep -i url   cut -d    -f 2    you get only the plain URL without the preceding       url     in      url http   example com repo git   you get more possibilities in its usage   Example  On Mac you could call open   giturl  to open the URL in the standard browser   Or chrome   giturl  to open it with the Chrome browser on Linux

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To get the IP address hostname of origin For ssh    repositories  git ls-remote --get-url origin   cut -f 2 -d     cut -f 1 -d  quot   quot   For git    repositories  git ls-remote --get-url origin   cut -f 2 -d     cut -f 1 -d  quot   quot

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If you want only the remote URL  or if your are not connected to a network that can reach the remote repo   git config --get remote origin url   If you require full output and you are on a network that can reach the remote repo where the origin resides    git remote show origin   When using git clone  from GitHub  or any source repository for that matter  the default name for the source of the clone is  origin   Using git remote show will display the information about this remote name  The first few lines should show   C  Users jaredpar VsVim gt  git remote show origin   remote origin   Fetch URL  git github com jaredpar VsVim git   Push  URL  git github com jaredpar VsVim git   HEAD branch  master   Remote branches    If you want to use the value in the script  you would use the first command listed in this answer

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To get the answer   git ls-remote --get-url  REMOTE    This is better than reading the configuration  refer to the man page for git-ls-remote      --get-url      Expand the URL of the given remote repository taking into account   any  url  lt base gt  insteadOf  config setting  See git-config 1   and   exit without talking to the remote    As pointed out by  Jefromi  this option was added in v1 7 5 and not documented until v1 7 12 2  2012-09

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I can never remember all the parameters to Git commands  so I just put an alias in the    gitconfig file that makes more sense to me  so I can remember it  and it results in less typing    alias  url   ls-remote --get-url   After reloading the terminal  you can then just type    gt  git url   Here are a few more of my frequently used ones    alias  cd   checkout ls   branch lsr   branch --remote lst   describe --tags   I also highly recommend git-extras which has a git info command which provides much more detailed information on the remote and local branches

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Short answer     git remote show -n origin   or  an alternative for pure quick scripts     git config --get remote origin url   Some info      git remote -v will print all remotes  not what you want   You want origin right    git remote show origin much better  shows only origin but takes too long  tested on git version 1 8 1 msysgit 1     I ended up with    git remote show -n origin  which  seems to be fastest  With -n it will not fetch remote heads  AKA branches   You don t need that type of info  right   http   www kernel org pub  software scm git docs git-remote html  You can apply   grep -i fetch to all three versions to show only the fetch URL   If you require pure speed  then use     git config --get remote origin url   Thanks to  Jefromi for pointing that out

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bin bash  git-remote-url      local rmt  1  shift      printf  Usage  git-remote-url  REMOTE  n   gt  amp 2  return 1     local url   if   git config --get remote   rmt  url  amp  gt  dev null  then   printf   s n   Error  not a valid remote name   amp  amp  return 1     Verify remote using  git remote -v  command  fi   url  git config --get remote   rmt  url      Parse remote if local clone used SSH checkout       url     git          amp  amp    url  https   github com   url        gt  amp 2          url    url   git    gt  amp 2       printf   s n    url      Usage     Either launch a new terminal and copy  git-remote-url  into the current shell process     or create a shell script and add it to the PATH to enable command invocation with bash     Create a local clone of your repo with SSH  or HTTPS git clone git github com your-username your-repository git cd your-repository  git-remote-url origin   Output   https   github com your-username your-repository

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To summarize  there are at least four ways    The following was tried for the official Linux repository   Least information     git config --get remote origin url https   github com torvalds linux git   and    git ls-remote --get-url https   github com torvalds linux git   More information     git remote -v origin    https   github com torvalds linux git  fetch  origin    https   github com torvalds linux git  push    Even more information     git remote show origin   remote origin   Fetch URL  https   github com torvalds linux git   Push  URL  https   github com torvalds linux git   HEAD branch  master   Remote branch      master tracked   Local branch configured for  git pull       master merges with remote master   Local ref configured for  git push       master pushes to master  up to date

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Print arbitrarily named remote fetch URLs   git remote -v   grep fetch   awk   print  2

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You can try   git remote -v   It will print all your remotes  fetch push URLs

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Should you want this for scripting purposes  you can get only the URL with  git config --get remote origin url

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