Git and GitHubLesson 21Free preview

GitHub Set Remote

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Summary

Once the repository is connected to GitHub, you can check, edit, and manage the remote list with the remote git command. Remote URLs can be changed, for example from HTTPS to SSH, using git remote set-url. For fork-out projects, the original repo is usually added as a second remote called upstream.

Key points

Git remote -v displays a list of remote along with its fetch/push URL
Git remote rename origin upstream change the name remote
Git remote set-url origin <url> replaces the remote URL
Git remote remove origin removing remote from local repository

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