How to add a custom remote to a local GitHub repository
Normally we add a remote called origin as a way to sync our local repo to our remote one (push, pull). TIL we can add other remotes.
(1) add a remote, eg. named custom_upstream
git remote add custom_upstream https://github.com/some-username/some-repo.gitTips:
- You can use any name as long as there is no existing remote with that name.
- You can add any repository you have access to, whether your own or other user's.
- If you don‘t have write access, you can still pull/fetch from it, but not push.
(2) fetch
git fetch custom_upstreamCommits to the remote main branch will be stored in a local branch called custom_upstream/main (and so on with other branches).
(3) merge to local, then merge to your working branch (if necessary)
git checkout main
git merge custom_upstream/main
# merge to a branch called dev-branch
git checkout dev-branch
git merge mainRelated commands:
git remoteto view all remotesgit remote rm custom_upstreamto remove a remote
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