Use git remote add origin when you need to add a new remote repository. Use git remote set-url origin when you need to change the URL of an existing remote repository.

git rm file.txt removes the file from the repo but also deletes it from the local file system. To remove the file from the repo and not delete it from the local file system use: git rm --cached …

I had to do this on an old version of git (1.5.6.5) and the set-url option did not exist. Simply deleting the unwanted remote and adding a new one with the same name worked without …

I like to run git push --set-upstream origin master instead of git push origin master the first time. This allows me to just type git push or git pull instead of git push origin master every time. …

2023 Update: git init will show a message that the current git repository as been 'reinitialized' but will NOT affect files (from the clone) or the remote settings.

With Git/Github for Windows, if I have a repository with this directory: C:\dir1\dir2, what do I need to do to move the repo files to C:\dir1? I can obviously physically copy and paste the files, but …

If you never plan to interact with the repository from which you cloned, you can do a full git clone and rewrite your repository using git filter-branch --subdirectory-filter <subdirectory>

# Mirror-push to the new repository cd .. rm -rf old-repository.git # Remove our temporary local repository NOTE: the above will work fine with any remote git repo, the instructions are not …

Is there any way to achieve that other than by doing a fresh clone of remote repository? Similar question as Sync local git repo with remote in one shot discarding local changes/commits.

I am posting this answer to provide a script with explanations that covers three different scenarios of creating a local repo that has a local remote. You can run the entire script and it will create …