Introduction to remotes

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George Boorman

Curriculum Manager, DataCamp

Local repo

local repository inside a desktop computer

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Remote repo

remote repo in the cloud

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Why use remote repos?

Benefits of remote repos

  • Everything is backed up

  • Collaboration, regardless of location

view of a laptop looking across a rooftop and a lake

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Cloning a repo

  • Repo copies on our local computer = local remotes

  • Making copies = cloning

git clone path-to-project-repo
  • Cloning a local project
git clone /home/george/repo
  • Cloning and naming a local project
git clone /home/george/repo new_repo
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Cloning a remote

  • Remote repos are generally stored in an online hosting service

    • e.g., GitHub, Bitbucket, or GitLab

  • If we have an account:

    • We can clone a remote repo on to our local computer
git clone URL

git clone https://github.com/datacamp/project
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Identifying a remote

  • When cloning a repo

    • Git remembers where the original was

  • Git stores a remote tag in the new repo's configuration

  • List all remotes associated with the repo

git remote

datacamp
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Getting more information

  • Get more information about the remote(s)
git remote -v

datacamp     https://github.com/datacamp/project (fetch)
datacamp     https://github.com/datacamp/project (pull)
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Creating a remote

  • When cloning, Git will automatically name the remote origin
git remote add name URL
  • Create a remote called george 
git remote add george https://github.com/george_datacamp/repo
  • Defining remote names is useful for merging
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Let's practice!

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