Finding out the name of the original repository you cloned from in Git

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When you do your first clone using the syntax  git clone username server gitRepo git   Is it possible using your local repository to find the name of that initial clone    So in the above example  find gitRepo git

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In the repository root  the  git config file holds all information about remote repositories and branches  In your example  you should look for something like    remote  origin       fetch    refs heads   refs remotes origin       url   server gitRepo git   Also  the Git command git remote -v shows the remote repository name and URL  The  origin  remote repository usually corresponds to the original repository  from which the local copy was cloned

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Edited for clarity  This will work to to get the value if the remote origin url is in the form protocol   auth info git host port project repo git  If you find it doesn t work  adjust the -f5 option that is part of the first cut command  For the example remote origin url of protocol   auth info git host port project repo git the output created by the cut command would contain the following  -f1  protocol  -f2   blank  -f3  auth info git host port -f4  project -f5  repo git If you are having problems  look at the output of the git config --get remote origin url command to see which field contains the original repository  If the remote origin url does not contain the  git string then omit the pipe to the second cut command     usr bin env bash repoSlug  quot   git config --get remote origin url   cut -d  -f5   cut -d  -f1  quot  echo   repoSlug

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I use this   basename   git remote get-url origin   git   Which returns something like gitRepo   Remove the  git at the end of the command to return something like gitRepo git     Note  It requires Git version 2 7 0 or later

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This is quick Bash command  that you re probably searching for  will print only a basename of the remote repository   Where you fetch from   basename   git remote show -n origin   grep Fetch   cut -d  -f2-    Alternatively where you push to   basename   git remote show -n origin   grep Push   cut -d  -f2-    Especially the -n option makes the command much quicker

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git config --get remote origin url

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git remote show origin -n   ruby -ne  puts    s Fetch         1                  git  match     2  rescue nil    It was tested with three different URL styles   echo  Fetch URL  http   user pass gitservice org 20080 owner repo git    ruby -ne  puts    s Fetch         1                  git  match     2  rescue nil  echo  Fetch URL  Fetch URL  git github com home1-oss oss-build git    ruby -ne  puts    s Fetch         1                  git  match     2  rescue nil  echo  Fetch URL  https   github com owner repo git    ruby -ne  puts    s Fetch         1                  git  match     2  rescue nil

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I stumbled on this question trying to get the organization repo string from a git host like github or gitlab    This is working for me     git config --get remote origin url   sed -e  s  git         graph       git  1     It uses sed to replace the output of the git config command with just the organization and repo name   Something like github scientist would be matched by the character class    graph    in the regular expression   The  1 tells sed to replace everything with just the matched characters

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Powershell version of command for git repo name   git config --get remote origin url  -replace       -replace   git

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