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Toby
Toby

Reputation: 8792

Finding out the name of the original repository you cloned from in Git

When you do your first clone using the syntax

git clone username@server:gitRepo.git

Is it possible using your local repository to find the name of that initial clone?

(So in the above example, find gitRepo.git.)

Upvotes: 157

Views: 186750

Answers (9)

Daniel Bayley
Daniel Bayley

Reputation: 1570

git ls-remote --get-url | xargs basename         # gitRepo.git
git ls-remote --get-url | xargs basename -s .git # gitRepo

# zsh
git ls-remote --get-url | read
print $REPLY:t   # gitRepo.git
print $REPLY:t:r # gitRepo

Upvotes: 0

joehep
joehep

Reputation: 154

Edited for clarity:

This will work to to get the value if the remote.origin.url is in the form protocol://auth_info@git_host:port/project/repo.git. If you find it doesn't work, adjust the -f5 option that is part of the first cut command.

For the example remote.origin.url of protocol://auth_info@git_host:port/project/repo.git the output created by the cut command would contain the following:

-f1: protocol: -f2: (blank) -f3: auth_info@git_host:port -f4: project -f5: repo.git

If you are having problems, look at the output of the git config --get remote.origin.url command to see which field contains the original repository. If the remote.origin.url does not contain the .git string then omit the pipe to the second cut command.

#!/usr/bin/env bash
repoSlug="$(git config --get remote.origin.url | cut -d/ -f5 | cut -d. -f1)"
echo ${repoSlug}

Upvotes: -1

Victor Fialkin
Victor Fialkin

Reputation: 164

Powershell version of command for git repo name:

(git config --get remote.origin.url) -replace '.*/' -replace '.git'

Upvotes: 1

jhnstn
jhnstn

Reputation: 2518

I stumbled on this question trying to get the organization/repo string from a git host like github or gitlab.

This is working for me: 

git config --get remote.origin.url | sed -e 's/^git@.*:\([[:graph:]]*\).git/\1/'

It uses sed to replace the output of the git config command with just the organization and repo name.

Something like github/scientist would be matched by the character class [[:graph:]] in the regular expression.

The \1 tells sed to replace everything with just the matched characters.

Upvotes: 3

adzenith
adzenith

Reputation: 777

I use this:

basename $(git remote get-url origin) .git

Which returns something like gitRepo. (Remove the .git at the end of the command to return something like gitRepo.git.)

(Note: It requires Git version 2.7.0 or later)

Upvotes: 18

haolun
haolun

Reputation: 334

git remote show origin -n | ruby -ne 'puts /^\s*Fetch.*(:|\/){1}([^\/]+\/[^\/]+).git/.match($_)[2] rescue nil'

It was tested with three different URL styles:

echo "Fetch URL: http://user@pass:gitservice.org:20080/owner/repo.git" | ruby -ne 'puts /^\s*Fetch.*(:|\/){1}([^\/]+\/[^\/]+).git/.match($_)[2] rescue nil'
echo "Fetch URL: Fetch URL: [email protected]:home1-oss/oss-build.git" | ruby -ne 'puts /^\s*Fetch.*(:|\/){1}([^\/]+\/[^\/]+).git/.match($_)[2] rescue nil'
echo "Fetch URL: https://github.com/owner/repo.git" | ruby -ne 'puts /^\s*Fetch.*(:|\/){1}([^\/]+\/[^\/]+).git/.match($_)[2] rescue nil'

Upvotes: 0

Casey
Casey

Reputation: 1422

This is quick Bash command, that you're probably searching for, will print only a basename of the remote repository:

Where you fetch from:

basename $(git remote show -n origin | grep Fetch | cut -d: -f2-)

Alternatively where you push to:

basename $(git remote show -n origin | grep Push | cut -d: -f2-)

Especially the -n option makes the command much quicker.

Upvotes: 30

allait
allait

Reputation: 3339

In the repository root, the .git/config file holds all information about remote repositories and branches. In your example, you should look for something like:

[remote "origin"]
    fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
    url = server:gitRepo.git

Also, the Git command git remote -v shows the remote repository name and URL. The "origin" remote repository usually corresponds to the original repository, from which the local copy was cloned.

Upvotes: 104

Straff
Straff

Reputation: 5749

git config --get remote.origin.url

Upvotes: 154

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