# git-parse-remote(1) Manual Page

## NAME

git-parse-remote - Routines to help parsing remote repository access parameters

## SYNOPSIS

. "$(git --exec-path)/git-parse-remote"

## DESCRIPTION

This script is included in various scripts to supply routines to parse files under $GIT_DIR/remotes/ and $GIT_DIR/branches/ and configuration variables that are related to fetching, pulling and pushing.

The primary entry points are:

get_remote_refs_for_fetch

  Given the list of user-supplied `<repo> <refspec>…`, return the list of refs to fetch after canonicalizing them into `$GIT_DIR` relative paths (e.g. `refs/heads/foo`). When `<refspec>…` is empty the returned list of refs consists of the defaults for the given `<repo>`, if specified in `$GIT_DIR/remotes/`, `$GIT_DIR/branches/`, or `remote.*.fetch` configuration.

get_remote_refs_for_push

  Given the list of user-supplied `<repo> <refspec>…`, return the list of refs to push in a form suitable to be fed to the git-send-pack command. When `<refspec>…` is empty the returned list of refs consists of the defaults for the given `<repo>`, if specified in `$GIT_DIR/remotes/`.

## Author

Written by Junio C Hamano.

## Documentation

Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.

## GIT

Part of the git(1) suite