Re: how-to "backup" a repository

Wink Saville [off-list ref] writes:

This sounds easy enough, but how-to "create a remote"?
I looked in .git/remotes and see origin which contains:

URL: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git
Pull: refs/heads/master:refs/heads/origin

But where is the syntax defined?

man git-push -- where else ;-)?

http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-push.html