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This tutorial is about displaying information about remote repositories in Git. We use Git, a version control system, to track changes made to files in our project directories through Git repositories.

Usually, local repositories are tracked using remote repositories in Git. We can git remoteview information about remote repositories using the command.

We will illustrate this with an example.

Display information about remote repositories in Git

We use Git in a collaborative development environment to track changes made to files in project directories.

We use Git repositories to track changes and build history over time. Thus, Git repositories are virtual storage for our projects.

It allows us to save versions of our code and we can access them whenever we need them. Usually, a local Git repository is tracked using a remote Git repository.

We use git clonethe command to clone the repository. git cloneThe command creates a originremote connection named , pointing to the cloned remote repository.

Thus, originproviding an easy way to pull upstream changes or push local commits.

We can view information about remote repositories using the remote command showwith the -remote option . The remote command manages a set of repositories that we are tracking.git remotegit remote

So, let's say we have a MyProjectproject called that's tracked via a remote repository in GitHub, a popular code hosting platform for version control and collaboration that bears the same name.

We can view information about the remote using the command showwith the -remote option as shown below.git remote

$ cd MyProject
$ git remote show origin
* remote origin
  Fetch URL: git@github.com:johndoe/MyProject.git
  Push  URL: git@github.com:johndoe/MyProject.git
  HEAD branch: master
  Remote branch:
    master tracked
  Local ref configured for 'git push':
    master pushes to master (local out of date)

So, we can see that git remotethe -p command and show-p option provide a detailed output of the remote repository configuration.

The output shows the list of branches associated with the repository and the endpoints attached for fetching and pushing.

So, in our case, the remote repository's masterbranches are shown as tracked. The fetch and push URLs are shown as the remote repository's GitHub URL.

It also shows if the local branch is out of date, as shown in the output above.

Sometimes, we just want to view the remote URL, so we can access the remote repository when we are not connected to the network.

In this case, we can view the remote URL as follows.

$ git config --get remote.origin.url
git@github.com:johndoe/MyProject.git

So, we have seen how to display information about remote repositories in Git.

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