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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-orign, 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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I had to do this on an old version of git (1.5.6.5) and the set-url option did not exist. Simply deleting the unwanted remote and adding a new one with the same name worked without problem and maintained history just fine. – HotN Sep 11 '14 at 21:17
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You can

git remote set-url origin git://new.url.here

(see git help remote) or you can just edit .git/config and change the URLs there. You're not in any danger of losing history unless you do something very silly (and if you're worried, just make a copy of your repo, since your repo is your history.)

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If you have a different shell user then maybe you want to specify your git user in the beginning of the new url e.g.: myself@git://new.url.here – sobi3ch Jul 1 '13 at 7:49
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You may also want to set the master upstream branch for your new origin location with: git branch -u origin/master. This will allow you to just git push instead of having to git push origin master every time. – kelorek Aug 13 '13 at 18:06
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@kelorek or you can just git push -u origin master the first time :) – hobbs Aug 14 '13 at 19:38
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I also had to git remote set-url --push origin git://... in order to set the origin ... (push) url. – jpillora Jun 2 '14 at 9:12
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use https:// instead of git:// – Anil Jul 22 at 23:03
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git remote set-url {name} {url}

ex) git remote set-url origin https://github.com/myName/GitTest.git

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  1. remove origin using command on gitbash git remote rm origin
  2. And now add new Origin using gitbash git remote add origin (Copy HTTP URL from your project repository in bit bucket) done
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git remote set-url origin git://new.location

(alternatively, open .git/config, look for [remote "origin"], and edit the url = line.

You can check it worked by examining the remotes:

git remote -v
# origin  git://new.location (fetch)
# origin  git://new.location (push)

Next time you push, you'll have to specify the new upstream branch, e.g.:

git push -u origin master

See also: GitHub: Changing a remote's URL

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I could not set the new origin by editing .git/config. It said the git repository named in the URL wasn't a git repository. Once I removed and re-created origin, all was well. I had not looked up git remote set-url as a solution to my problem, though. – octopusgrabbus Sep 15 '15 at 13:55
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git remote -v
# View existing remotes
# origin  https://github.com/user/repo.git (fetch)
# origin  https://github.com/user/repo.git (push)

git remote set-url origin https://github.com/user/repo2.git
# Change the 'origin' remote's URL

git remote -v
# Verify new remote URL
# origin  https://github.com/user/repo2.git (fetch)
# origin  https://github.com/user/repo2.git (push)

Changing a remote's URL

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As a person scared of terminal due to its lack of visual feedback I highly appreciate your answer. – daniel.sedlacek Jun 4 at 15:15
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Change Host for a Git Origin Server

from: http://pseudofish.com/blog/2010/06/28/change-host-for-a-git-origin-server/

Hopefully this isn’t something you need to do. The server that I’ve been using to collaborate on a few git projects with had the domain name expire. This meant finding a way of migrating the local repositories to get back in sync.

Update: Thanks to @mawolf for pointing out there is an easy way with recent git versions (post Feb, 2010):

git remote set-url origin ssh://newhost.com/usr/local/gitroot/myproject.git

See the man page for details.

If you’re on an older version, then try this:

As a caveat, this works only as it is the same server, just with different names.

Assuming that the new hostname is newhost.com, and the old one was oldhost.com, the change is quite simple.

Edit the .git/config file in your working directory. You should see something like:

[remote "origin"]
fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
url = ssh://oldhost.com/usr/local/gitroot/myproject.git

Change oldhost.com to newhost.com, save the file and you’re done.

From my limited testing (git pull origin; git push origin; gitx) everything seems in order. And yes, I know it is bad form to mess with git internals.

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Bad form? Perhaps. But if you need to do something the authors didn't expect anyone would ever need to do, then sometimes messing with the internals is required. But you do have to be willing to accept the consequences if you get it wrong. Backup your local repository _before_ messing with git internals. – Jesse Chisholm Oct 20 at 15:41

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