Git remote repository

Hello Everyone

Welcome to CloudAffaire and this is Debjeet.

In the last blog post, we have discussed how to rewrite git history.

https://cloudaffaire.com/git-rewrite-history/

In this blog post, we will discuss git remote repository. We will use GitHub as our remote repository in this demo.

Git remote repository:

Demo:

Create a GitHub account and login to your GitHub account. Create a repository in your GitHub account.

Git Remote Repository

Copy your remote repository https link

Git Remote Repository

#login to your local instance and clone the remote repository (will ask for your GitHub credentials)
git clone https://github.com/CloudAffaire/mygit.git && cd mygit

#check remote repository
git remote -v

#add your user name and email to git config
git config --local user.name "Debjeet" && \
git config --local user.email "debjeet@cloudaffaire.com"

#create a file and commit in local repository
echo "hello from local_master" > local_master
git add local_master && git commit -m "added in local repo master branch"

#check git log
git log --oneline

#push the change in remote repository (will ask for your github credentials)
git push

#check git log (HEAD -> master, origin/master)
git log --oneline

#login to your local instance and clone the remote repository (will ask for your GitHub credentials)

git clone https://github.com/CloudAffaire/mygit.git && cd mygit

#check remote repository

git remote -v

#add your user name and email to git config

git config --local user.name "Debjeet" && \

git config --local user.email "debjeet@cloudaffaire.com"

#create a file and commit in local repository

echo "hello from local_master" > local_master

git add local_master && git commit -m "added in local repo master branch"

#check git log

git log --oneline

#push the change in remote repository (will ask for your github credentials)

git push

#check git log (HEAD -> master, origin/master)

git log --oneline

Create a file and commit in remote repository

file name: remote_master

file content: “hello from remote_master”

commit message: “added in remote repo master branch”

Git Remote Repository

#pull the changes in local repo
git pull

#check git log ((HEAD -> master, origin/master)
git log

#check local repo working tree (file remote_master has been pulled)
ls

#create a branch in local repo
git branch local_slave

#switch to slave branch
git checkout local_slave

#create a file in local local_slave branch and commit
echo "hello from local_slave" > local_slave
git add local_slave && git commit -m "added in local repo slave branch"

#push the branch in remote repository (will ask for your github credentials)
git push --set-upstream origin local_slave

#pull the changes in local repo

git pull

#check git log ((HEAD -> master, origin/master)

git log

#check local repo working tree (file remote_master has been pulled)

#create a branch in local repo

git branch local_slave

#switch to slave branch

git checkout local_slave

#create a file in local local_slave branch and commit

echo "hello from local_slave" > local_slave

git add local_slave && git commit -m "added in local repo slave branch"

#push the branch in remote repository (will ask for your github credentials)

git push --set-upstream origin local_slave

In remote repository, one branch named local_slave has been created due to above push.

Git Remote Repository

In remote repo create another branch remote_slave

Git Remote Repository

Create a file in remote remote_slave branch and commit

file name: remote_slave

file content: “hello from remote_slave”

commit message: “added in remote repo slave branch”

Git Remote Repository

#switch to local master branch 
git checkout master

#pull remote_slave branch from remote repo (will ask for your github credentials)
git pull origin remote_slave

#check files (remote_slave file pulled from remote repo)
ls

#merge local slave with master
git merge local_slave

#delete the local slave branch
git branch -d local_slave

#check files (local_slave file added under master branch)
ls

#push the changes to remote repo (remote_slave file pulled from remote repo)
git push

#check remote repo master branch(all 4 files exist)

#delete remote branches (will ask for your github credentials)
git push origin --delete remote_slave
git push origin --delete local_slave

#check logs
git log --oneline

#check remote repo (local_slave and remote_slave branch deleted)

#cleanup (clear commits in remote repo)
git checkout --orphan clean_branch
git add -A # Add all files and commit them
git commit -m "Cleanup"
git branch -D master # Deletes the master branch
git branch -m master # Rename the current branch to master
git push -f origin master # Force push master branch to github
git gc --aggressive --prune=all # remove the old files

#cleanup (clear files and commits remote repo)
cd .. && rm -rf mygit
git init mygit && cd mygit
echo "Demo git repository" > README.md
git add README.md && git commit -m "README.md added"
git remote add origin https://github.com/CloudAffaire/mygit.git
git push -u --force origin master

#cleanup (remove remote repository reference from local repository)
git remote rm destination
git remote -v

#add remote origin: git remote add origin https://github.com/CloudAffaire/mygit.git
#fetch remote repo: git fetch origin remote_slave
#merge the update from remote repo to local repo: git merge origin/master
#instead of fetch and merge we can also pull from remote repo: git pull
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#switch to local master branch

git checkout master

#pull remote_slave branch from remote repo (will ask for your github credentials)

git pull origin remote_slave

#check files (remote_slave file pulled from remote repo)

#merge local slave with master

git merge local_slave

#delete the local slave branch

git branch -d local_slave

#check files (local_slave file added under master branch)

#push the changes to remote repo (remote_slave file pulled from remote repo)

git push

#check remote repo master branch(all 4 files exist)

#delete remote branches (will ask for your github credentials)

git push origin --delete remote_slave

git push origin --delete local_slave

#check logs

git log --oneline

#check remote repo (local_slave and remote_slave branch deleted)

#cleanup (clear commits in remote repo)

git checkout --orphan clean_branch

git add -A # Add all files and commit them

git commit -m "Cleanup"

git branch -D master # Deletes the master branch

git branch -m master # Rename the current branch to master

git push -f origin master # Force push master branch to github

git gc --aggressive --prune=all # remove the old files

#cleanup (clear files and commits remote repo)

cd .. && rm -rf mygit

git init mygit && cd mygit

echo "Demo git repository" > README.md

git add README.md && git commit -m "README.md added"

git remote add origin https://github.com/CloudAffaire/mygit.git

git push -u --force origin master

#cleanup (remove remote repository reference from local repository)

git remote rm destination

git remote -v

#add remote origin: git remote add origin https://github.com/CloudAffaire/mygit.git

#fetch remote repo: git fetch origin remote_slave

#merge the update from remote repo to local repo: git merge origin/master

#instead of fetch and merge we can also pull from remote repo: git pull

Hope you have enjoyed this article.

To get more details on git, please refer below git documentation

https://git-scm.com/doc