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To add a new remote, use the git remote add command on the terminal, in the directory your repository is stored at. The git remote add command takes two arguments: A unique remote name, for example, “my_awesome_new_remote_repo” A remote URL, which you can find on the Source sub-tab of your Git repo.
First, initialize the repository and make at least one commit. Once you have initialized the repository, create a remote repository somewhere like GitHub.com. Then, add the remote URL to your local git repository with git remote add origin <URL> . This stores the remote URL under a more human-friendly name, origin .
When you clone a repository with git clone , it automatically creates a remote connection called origin pointing back to the cloned repository. This is useful for developers creating a local copy of a central repository, since it provides an easy way to pull upstream changes or publish local commits.
Using SSH
git remote add origin ssh://login@IP/path/to/repository
Using HTTP
git remote add origin http://IP/path/to/repository
However having a simple git pull as a deployment process is usually a bad idea and should be avoided in favor of a real deployment script.
For anyone who comes here, as I did, looking for the syntax to change origin to a different location you can find that documentation here: https://help.github.com/articles/changing-a-remote-s-url/. Using git remote add to do this will result in "fatal: remote origin already exists."
Nutshell:
git remote set-url origin https://github.com/username/repo
(The marked answer is correct, I'm just hoping to help anyone as lost as I was... haha)
You can include the branch to track when setting up remotes, to keep things working as you might expect:
git remote add --track master origin [email protected]:group/project.git # git
git remote add --track master origin [email protected]:group/project.git # git w/IP
git remote add --track master origin http://github.com/group/project.git # http
git remote add --track master origin http://172.16.1.100/group/project.git # http w/IP
git remote add --track master origin /Volumes/Git/group/project/ # local
git remote add --track master origin G:/group/project/ # local, Win
This keeps you from having to manually edit your git config or specify branch tracking manually.
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