lab 47 What is Origin?

Goals

Learn about naming remote repositories.

Execute:

git remote

Output:

$ git remote
origin

We see that the cloned repository knows about a remote repository named origin. Let’s see if we can get more information about origin:

Execute:

git remote show origin

Output:

$ git remote show origin
* remote origin
  Fetch URL: /Users/jim/Downloads/git_tutorial/work/hello
  Push  URL: /Users/jim/Downloads/git_tutorial/work/hello
  HEAD branch: (unknown)
  Remote branches:
    excitement tracked
    greet      tracked
    main       tracked

Now we see that the remote repository “origin” is simply the original hello repository. Remote repositories typically live on a separate machine, possibly a centralized server. As we can see here, however, they can just as well point to a repository on the same machine. There is nothing particularly special about the name “origin”, however the convention is to use the name “origin” for the primary centralized repository (if there is one).