Git removing upstream from local repository

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user2603138 picture user2603138 · Nov 6, 2013 · Viewed 115k times · Source

I am working with a ruby on rails application and I am trying to sync a fork. It is worth mentioning that I am also on a Mac. I committed the following action:

$ git remote -v

to get a view of my local repository. I messed up when trying to go upstream:

$ git remote add upstream https://github.com/foo/repo.git

When I should have capitalized Foo:

$ git remote add upstream https://github.com/Foo/repos.git

The question is how do I remove the upstream because every time I try and change this it comes back with creating a fatal error?

Answer

bmacnaughton picture bmacnaughton · Feb 17, 2014

Using git version 1.7.9.5 there is no "remove" command for remote. Use "rm" instead.

$ git remote rm upstream
$ git remote add upstream https://github.com/Foo/repos.git

or, as noted in the previous answer, set-url works.

I don't know when the command changed, but Ubuntu 12.04 shipped with 1.7.9.5.

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