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Android Sending Projects to GitHub

Jerry Yu
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Jerry Yu
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Posted by Jerry Yu
Jerry Yu
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Github Remote Name

When sharing project on GitHub through Android Studio, there is a new field called remote name and it is default to origin. What is a remote name and how is it different from the repository name?

Can I use whatever name I prefer for the remote name?

Thanks,

2 Answers

Seth Kroger
Seth Kroger
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Seth Kroger
Seth Kroger
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The remote name is a short-hand label for a remote repository. "origin" is the conventional default name for the first remote and is usually where you push to when you don't specify a remote for git. You can set up more than one remote for your local repo and you use the remote name when pushing to them. For instance you could set up a second copy of the repo on Bitbucket and refer to it with the remote name "bitbucket". Then pushing to origin would push and changes to GitHub, and pushing to bitbucket would push those same changes to BitBucket.