| 19 | Adding and Removing Remotes |
Git allows you to have as many remote repositories as you like. Itâs common to have a different remote for each member of your team in a fully distributed architecture for your repositories. Git requires that each remote have a unique name.
You must tell Git where to access remote repositories. You do
this using the git remote add
command.[15] It requires two parameters: a name and a
repository URL.
The first is simply the short name you use to reference the remote
repository by. The name origin is the
conventional name for the repository that you clone from. Git uses
this convention in several commands that allow you to skip the
remote name when youâre working with the
origin repository.
The repository ...
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