Default remote for git fetch

Question

If I am on a local branch that is not tracking any remote branch and I give the command

git fetch

Given I have several remotes defined

Answer 1

In your project folder, when you initialize git in the first step, .git folder is created.

Look into this folder for a file named config, it contains all the branch info. origin is used as the default.

  [remote "origin"]
      fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
      url = git@github.com:project.git

So the code is fetched from the url listed here.