Git - fatal: remote origin already exists

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Brad Thrumble picture Brad Thrumble · Aug 21, 2014 · Viewed 34.5k times · Source

I can not create origin remotely with remote command:

$ git remote add origin https://github.com/LongKnight/git-basics.git
fatal: remote origin already exists.

To solve the error, I have tried this:

$ git remote -v origin
$ git remote -v show origin

It is not uploading the files from my local repository to the remote:

$ git push -u origin master
fatal: 'origin' does not appear to be a git repository
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights and the repository exists.

Does each repository have its own origin?

Solution: I was using the Powershell that came with Github or Git Shell as it is also called to do my tutorial, once I switched to Git Bash it worked fine.

Answer

VonC picture VonC · Aug 21, 2014

A bit easier:

git remote set-url origin https://github.com/LongKnight/git-basics.git

That will replace the current origin with a new one.

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