Working with Remotes

A remote is a version of your repository hosted elsewhere (GitHub, GitLab, a server).

Clone an existing repository

git clone https://github.com/user/repo.git
git clone https://github.com/user/repo.git my-folder

Connect a local repo to a remote

git remote add origin https://github.com/user/repo.git
git remote -v            # List configured remotes

Send commits to the remote

git push origin main
git push -u origin main   # -u remembers this pairing for future plain `git push`

Fetch and merge from the remote

git pull origin main      # fetch + merge in one step
git fetch origin          # Just download, don't merge yet

Typical daily workflow

git pull                       # Get latest changes
# ...make edits...
git add .
git commit -m "Add feature X"
git push