How to Change a Git Remote

I needed to change a remote, as the ip address of the remote server had changed.

$ git remote -v
origin ssh://[email protected]:/home/mrbear/store (fetch)
origin ssh://[email protected]:/home/mrbear/store (push)

So to change it:

git remote set-url origin ssh://[email protected]:/home/mrbear/store

And it becomes:

$ git remote -v
origin ssh://[email protected]:/home/mrbear/store (fetch)
origin ssh://[email protected]:/home/mrbear/store (push)

References

CareerKarma - How to Change a Git Remote

https://careerkarma.com/blog/git-change-remote/

Changing Git Remote Urls

I recently switched network settings, and now my IPs have changed, and my remotes no longer match.

A quick google¹ for the right syntax is all I needed.

mrbear@labtop mygitrepository % git remote -v
origin ssh://[email protected]:/home/mrbear/mygitrepository (fetch)
origin ssh://[email protected]:/home/mrbear/mygitrepository (push)

So my setup changed ips from 10.0.0.0 network to 192.168.2.0 network.

% git remote set-url origin ssh://[email protected]:/home/mrbear/mygitrepository
mrbear@labtop mygitrepository % git remote -v
origin ssh://[email protected]:/home/mrbear/mygitrepository (fetch)
origin ssh://[email protected]:/home/mrbear/mygitrepository (push)

Verification is always a good thing.

% git pull
[email protected]'s password:
remote: Enumerating objects: 19, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (19/19), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (16/16), done.
remote: Total 16 (delta 8), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 0
Unpacking objects: 100% (16/16), 93.48 KiB | 3.89 MiB/s, done.
From ssh://192.168.2.1:/home/mrbear/mygitrepository
7f41ba8..e7de4cf master -> origin/master
Updating 7f41ba8..e7de4cf
Fast-forward

References

[1] Managing remote repositories

https://docs.github.com/en/github/getting-started-with-github/managing-remote-repositories