I mistakenly added an unknown repository to git locally in the command line. How do I remove or replace the repository

Question

I want to remove the wrong repository and replace it with the correct repository on GitHub. What do I do?

Fatal: repository "https://GitHub.com/username/alx-pre_school.git" not found

Answer 1

You could simply execute the following command to change the URI:

• HTTPS

  git remote set-url origin https://github.com/USERNAME/REPOSITORY.git

• SSH

  git remote set-url origin [email protected]:USERNAME/REPOSITORY.git

Alternatively, find .git/config in the cloned folder structure, look for [remote "origin"], and edit the url = assignment.

.git/config would look similar to below,

[remote "origin"]
fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
url = https://github.com/USERNAME/REPOSITORY.git

Verify whether its working by examining the remotes:

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

Next time you push, mention the upstream like below:

git push -u origin master

Reference: GitHub: Manage Remote repositories

Answer 2

Most likely you have named your repository origin, you can check it by running

git remote -v

The output will look like

origin  https://github.com/user/your_repo.git (fetch)
origin  https://github.com/user/your_repo.git (push)

To change the remote's repository URL run

git remote set-url origin https://github.com/user/new_name.git