Cannot remove remote origin

Question

I\'m running git 1.8.0 on OS X, and every new git repo seems to have a remote called \"origin\":

$ git init
$ git remote
origin

What\'s odd

Answer 1

I solved my problems this way. First I opened up the config file using vim with the following command

$ vim .git/config

I modified my file to this below:

[core]
        repositoryformatversion = 0
        filemode = true
        bare = false
        logallrefupdates = true
        ignorecase = true
        precomposeunicode = false
[branch "master"]
[remote "origin"]
        url = git@192.168.200.79:xxx.git
        fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin_iOS/*

So now, when I give a command git push it understands, because by default it pushed to origin and it is set to my origin_iOS in my server.

You can check your origin config by remote -v command:

$ git remote -v
origin  git@192.168.200.79:xxxx.git (fetch)
origin  git@192.168.200.79:xxx.git (push)

If you don't have 'origin', you will have troubles with a usual 'git push' as I did. I had to type 'git push origin_iOS master', because I had in my config 'origin_iOS'

Answer 2

Open the .git directory and edit the config file where it says [remote "origin"]

Answer 3

You should be able to remove origin with

git remote rm origin

Not that you need to, you can just change the origin with set-url

git remote set-url origin "https://..."