Question

Is there a way to automatically set what your remotes are on a git repository after a git init?
I know I can have a git/config template, but I would need a way to reference the new repo name/directory to set the remote.

Example:

cd newProject
git init

and .git/config would already have:

[remote "origin"]
    url = git@myserver:newProject
    fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*

at the end of the file.

I suppose I could do this by creating a bash script to do the git init and then append to the config file, and run that file instead of using git init, but I was hoping there was a way I could do it as part of the git init command.

Answer 1

You can create an alias in ~/.gitconfig. For example, to create a remote on example.com using the basename of the current directory as the project name:

myinit = ! "git init; git remote add origin \"[e-mail]:${PWD##*/}.git\""

If you’re project is named “foo,” when you run git myinit in /path/to/foo it will initialize the the repository and set origin to “[e-mail]:foo.git” for you.