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As part of the Coursera Data Scientist course set up, I incorrectly linked a directory, test-repo, to an incorrect account. So, in the statement:

git remote add origin https://github.com/yourUserNamehere/test-repo.git

I incorrectly specified the User Name. I'm thinking that I can delete the directory and reset it up again. I've researched the ability to either delete the directory or re-link it to the right account but have not found any information that can help me do so. Would appreciate some guidance.

CodeWizard
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TheSunIsUp
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    you want to change your origin url to another link? just run git remote add origin your_url again, it will override it... – Surely Jun 14 '15 at 04:43
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    possible duplicate of [Change the URI (URL) for a remote Git repository](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2432764/change-the-uri-url-for-a-remote-git-repository) – Joe Jun 14 '15 at 07:39
  • @Joe a certain duplicate. – Nick Volynkin Jun 14 '15 at 19:49

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To change the URL of a remote, use git remote set-url <name> <newurl>, in your example

git remote set-url origin https://github.com/yourUserNamehere/test-repo.git

Removing the remote and then adding it again as suggested in the comment by @xwhyLikeThis would also work.

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You can view the existing remotes by the above command. 

git remote -v

Then to reset the remote URL,you can do the following:

git remote set-url origin https://github.com/<user_name>/<repo_name>.git

To verify the new remote URL, you can type the first command again:

git remote -v
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