Question

I am wanting to double check my work with git.

I am trying to use a remote repo server:
I want to only work on MYBRANCH, so I only clone MYBRANCH

/usr/local/git/bin/git clone -b MYBRANCH git@172.27.13.29:/home/PROJECT.git

when I run

git remote -v

I see

origin git@172.27.13.29:/home/PROJECT.git (fetch)
origin git@172.27.13.29:/home/PROJECT.git (push)

I expected to see MYBRANCH and not origin

Can someone explain that?

Answer 1

origin is the name of the remote repository, not the name of a branch.

For instance, when you go to push changes back, you’ll type git push origin MYBRANCH which says “push the local branch MYBRANCH to the remote repository origin‘s branch MYBRANCH“.

If you want to see remote branches, you should use git branch -r rather than git remote -v.