Adding Remotes

Update

• Renaming the default branch from master to main

Add to myclone/medals.html:

    <div>
        <a href="gold.html">Gold medals</a>
    </div>
    <div>
        <a href="silver.html">Silver medals</a>
    </div>

• Then stage the changes: git add medals.html, and commit them: git commit -m "Add links"
  • That commit now appears in our history for the myclone repository.
• But this commit does not appear in the medals repository.
• Although we were able to run git pull in the myclone repository to pull in commits from the medals repository, we can't pull from myclone to medals yet.
• When we cloned the medals repository to the myclone repository, medals was automatically set up as a remote repo on myclone.
  • But the reverse isn't true. In fact, we can try running git remote from the medals repo, and we won't see any remote repos at all.
• So we're going to need to add myclone as a remote on the medals repo.
  • We can do this with the git remote add subcommand.
  • git remote add takes two arguments:
  • The first is the name we want to give the remote repo. We can use any name we want, but generally, it should be all lowercase. We'll use the name myclone for this remote.
  • The second argument will usually be the URL of the remote repository.
    • But since this "remote" repo is just another directory on our local computer, we'll give it the path to that directory instead: ../myclone

git remote add myclone ../myclone

• Now let's try running git remote again. This time, we'll see a remote repo with the name we specified, myclone.
• For this first-time running git pull, we need to provide two arguments:
  • The remote repo we're pulling from: myclone
  • The "branch" we want to pull: main | UPDATE - Renaming the default branch from master to main.
  • By default, Git repositories start with only one branch, named main.
  • Because we haven't created any other branches, our work in the myclone repo will be on the main branch there, as well.

git pull myclone main

• That command will pull our new commit from the myclone remote repo into the medals repo.