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

Question

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

Answer 1

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)