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How To Change Git Remote Origin?

junwufan edited this page Aug 24, 2021 · 1 revision

The git remote set-url command changes an existing remote repository URL.

Adding a remote repository

To add a new remote, use the git remote add command on the terminal, in the directory your repository is stored at.

git remote add origin https://github.com/user/repo.git

Change Git Remote URL

In order to change the URL of a Git remote, you have to use the git remote set-url command and specify the name of the remote as well as the new remote URL to be changed.

git remote set-url <remote_name> <remote_url>

In order to achieve that, you would use the set-url command on the origin remote and you would specify the new URL.

git remote set-url origin https://git-repo/new-repository.git

Congratulations, you successfully changed the URL of your Git remote!

List your existing remotes in order to get the name of the remote you want to change.

    $ git remote -v
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