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
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.
An alternative approach is to rename the 'old' origin (in the example below I name it simply old-origin
) and adding a new one. This might be the desired approach if you still want to be able to push to the old origin every now and then:
git remote rename origin old-origin
git remote add origin git@new-git-server.com>:<username>/<projectname>.git
And in case you need to push your local state to the new origin:
git push -u origin --all
git push -u origin --tags
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
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
You can change the url by editing the config file. Go to your project root:
nano .git/config
Then edit the url field and set your new url. Save the changes. You can verify the changes by using the command.
git remote -v
If your repository is private then
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