How can I determine the URL that a local Git repository was originally cloned from?
How can I determine the URL that a local Git repository was originally cloned from?
Question
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?
Accepted Answer
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> git remote show origin
* remote origin
Fetch URL: [email protected]:jaredpar/VsVim.git
Push URL: [email protected]: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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Should you want this for scripting purposes, you can get only the URL with
git config --get remote.origin.url
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.<base>.insteadOf"
config setting (Seegit-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).
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 <newurl>
)
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 ofls-remote --url
and there is no way to expandpushInsteadOf
as well.
Add aget-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 forinsteadOf
andpushInsteadOf
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]
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)