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How do I change the URI (URL) for a remote Git repository?

I have a repo (origin) on a USB key that I cloned on my hard drive (local). I moved "origin" to a NAS and successfully tested cloning it from here.

I would like to know if I can change the URI of "origin" in the settings of "local" so it will now pull from the NAS, and not from the USB key.

For now, I can see two solutions:

push everything to the USB origin, and copy it to the NAS again (implies a lot of work due to new commits to NAS origin);
add a new remote to "local" and delete the old one (I fear I'll break my history).

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Do you have to remove the old origin before you add the new origin?
– Sledge
Feb 27, 2019 at 20:17
I didn't remove from the project anything. I simply do the above steps and it worked
– VIKAS KOHLI
Feb 28, 2019 at 7:56

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