Support for remote management in git

[manjrekarom]

Added options for adding and removing remotes.

[msftclas]

All CLA requirements met.

[balexandre]

@manjrekarom if it's not much to ask, can you add "Prune/Purge Remote Branches" option as well ?

git remote prune <remote_name>

[manjrekarom]

@balexandre Yes. I will be happy to add that as well. But do I need to get a confirmation first?

@joaomoreno Should I create a different pull request or add it here? Sorry, I am kinda new to this stuff. Thanks!

[balexandre]

@manjrekarom that will depend if there's more than one remote, and you only prune the one set as upload stream...

would be useful to have it as well, like git fetch to continue in the background and purge it time to time, as all it does is remote the remotes, not local branchs ... organizations tend to have the remote clean up time to time, and I'm facing that every time they simply forget :)

I also use this snipped to get all remotes from each author (so I know what they need to clean up)

git for-each-ref --format='%(committerdate)%09%(authorname)%09%(refname)' | sort -k5n -k2M -k3n -k4n | grep remotes | awk -F "\t" '{ printf "%-32s %-27s %s\n", $1, $2, $3 }'

[joaomoreno]

Feel free to add that to this PR

[jongio]

@manjrekarom - would love to see this get implemented. Are you still working on it? Need help?

[manjrekarom]

@jongio I am almost forgot about that. Will start working on the purge/prune thing. I'll let you know if I need any help. Thanks for asking.

[jongio]

@manjrekarom What are your thoughts on doing it as a separate PR instead of merging it with this one… That way we can get the baseline remote stuff in there and then add prune later on?

[manjrekarom]

@jongio Yeah. That is fine to me. Priority stuff should be added first.

I've done add and remove remote. Can you tell me what more should go into the baseline?

[jongio]

How about adding a command to view the remotes - git remote -v and then that hows the remote in the dropdown or output pane?

[manjrekarom]

@jongio Yes, I'll add that in this PR.

Here is a list of all remote things from git scm. I've tried categorising them. Let me know what you think.

Baseline:

1. git remote [-v | --verbose]
2. git remote rename

Extra

1. git remote set-head (-a | --auto | -d | --delete | )
2. git remote set-branches [--add] …​
3. git remote get-url [--push] [--all]
4. git remote set-url [--push] []
5. git remote set-url --add [--push]
6. git remote set-url --delete [--push]
7. git remote [-v | --verbose] show [-n] …​
8. git remote prune [-n | --dry-run] …​
9. git remote [-v | --verbose] update [-p | --prune] [( | )…​]

[jongio]

@manjrekarom -

[kinghat]

Here is a list of all remote things from git scm. I've tried categorising them. Let me know what you think.

Baseline:

1. git remote [-v | --verbose]
2. git remote rename

Extra

1. git remote set-head (-a | --auto | -d | --delete | )
2. git remote set-branches [--add] …​
3. git remote get-url [--push] [--all]
4. git remote set-url [--push] []
5. git remote set-url --add [--push]
6. git remote set-url --delete [--push]
7. git remote [-v | --verbose] show [-n] …​
8. git remote prune [-n | --dry-run] …​
9. git remote [-v | --verbose] update [-p | --prune] [( | )…​]

@manjrekarom would these be the main ones to be added?
git remote add upstream, git fetch upstream, and git rebase upstream/master or git merge upstream/master

[jongio]

Great point. It would be awesome if I could have a 'rebase with remote' feature, but I think that is prob a diff PR.

[darkyuhoo01]

@jongio Yes, I'll add that in this PR.

Here is a list of all remote things from git scm. I've tried categorising them. Let me know what you think.

Baseline:

git remote [-v | --verbose]
git remote rename
Extra

git remote set-head (-a | --auto | -d | --delete | )
git remote set-branches [--add] …​
git remote get-url [--push] [--all]
git remote set-url [--push] []
git remote set-url --add [--push]
git remote set-url --delete [--push]
git remote [-v | --verbose] show [-n] …​
git remote prune [-n | --dry-run] …​
git remote [-v | --verbose] update [-p | --prune] [( | )…​]

[darkyuhoo01]

@manjrekarom - would love to see this get implemented. Are you still working on it? Need help?

[joaomoreno]

Apart from the error of sanitizing the remote URL, looks great, thanks!

[jongio]

Awesome! @RMacfarlane - It would be awesome to see how we integrate the PR extension docs with this update.

[alexanderlsmith123]

Yeah this is awesome

[manjrekarom]

Thank you so very much everyone! :D Delighted to see my PR go into master. I started working on this as a Hacktoberfest task and never imagined it would go this way. This will be my first (real) accepted PR. And that too for something that I and millions of people enjoy using daily. Thanks again.

[jongio]

@manjrekarom

That’s awesome. Thank you so much for the effort.