Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.

Change Git Remote URL

The git remote set-url command changes an existing remote repository URL.

The git remote set-url command takes two arguments:

An existing remote name. For example, origin or upstream are two common choices.

A new URL for the remote. For example:

If you’re updating to use HTTPS, your URL might look like:

https://github.com/OWNER/REPOSITORY.git

If you’re updating to use SSH, your URL might look like:

git@github.com:OWNER/REPOSITORY.git

Switching remote URL

  1. Open Git Bash.

  2. Change the current working directory to your local project.

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

# SSH
$ git remote -v
> origin  git@github.com:OWNER/REPOSITORY.git (fetch)
> origin  git@github.com:OWNER/REPOSITORY.git (push)

# HTTPS
$ git remote -v
> origin  https://github.com/OWNER/REPOSITORY.git (fetch)
> origin  https://github.com/OWNER/REPOSITORY.git (push)
  1. Change your remote’s URL with the git remote set-url command.
# To HTTPS
git remote set-url origin https://github.com/OWNER/REPOSITORY.git

# To SSH
git remote set-url origin git@github.com:OWNER/REPOSITORY.git
  1. Verify that the remote URL has changed.
# HTTPS
$ git remote -v
# Verify new remote URL
> origin  https://github.com/OWNER/REPOSITORY.git (fetch)
> origin  https://github.com/OWNER/REPOSITORY.git (push)

# SSH
$ git remote -v
# Verify new remote URL
> origin  git@github.com:OWNER/REPOSITORY.git (fetch)
> origin  git@github.com:OWNER/REPOSITORY.git (push)

Notice: If change remote url from SSH to HTTPS, when you next time do git fetch, git pull, or git push to the remote repository, you’ll be asked for your username and password. When Git prompts you for your password, enter your personal access token.