Change git remote origin

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On github, I've forked a project from its original source original/project-name so now I have a remote repo on github myusername/project-name. I would now like to switch my github repo to use a contributors fork contributor/project-name. How can I do this?

Something I do when working with forked repos is to create another remote, for easy pull, and keep origin to easy push. — gustavohenke, Jun 27 '13 at 00:45
@GabrielePetronella - I don't want to change the remote of my local repository - I want to change the remote repo to a different fork — askvictor, Jul 04 '13 at 01:21

score 6 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:43

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As already noted in the comments, it's as simple as

git remote set-url origin https://github.com/contributor/project-name.git

An alternative you may want to consider is to create a second remote for the fork.

git remote add fork https://github.com/contributor/project-name.git

If you want to keep the fork up-to-date with the original repo, you can refer to my answer to this question.

edited May 23 '17 at 11:43

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answered Jun 27 '13 at 00:43

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 27 '13 at 01:10

Gabriele's answer provides the quickest and most concise option, but you could alternatively edit the .git/config file to change the remote. Possibly a better choice would be to add another remote all together as done by

git remote add REMOTE_NAME_HERE REMOTE_URL_HERE

i.e.:

git remote add test https://github.com/username/test-project.git

where "test" becomes the name of your new remote. You would then push to the remote repo using "test" instead of "origin"

git push -u test BRANCH_NAME

Change git remote origin

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