Change Origin of a git repository

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If you want to change the URL of a repository to which it points to, then this post is for you. If you try the same command:

git remote add origin http://github.com/USERNAME/OTHERREPOSITORY.git

then it is not gonna work and you will probably get error like this:

fatal: remote origin already exists.

List your existing remotes in order to get the name of the remote you want to change

git remote -v

Change your repository’s remote url with command:

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

Substitute the values of USERNAME and OTHERREPOSITORY with yours.