Cloning from a repo then pushing to a different one

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I'm using WordPress Sage so for every project I clone their repo. For my current project I want to push to a repo of mine though. Should I delete all Git files and start over, or can I keep them and somehow inform Git about my repo?

Voting to close as a duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2432764/change-the-uri-url-for-a-remote-git-repository — bahrep, Aug 01 '16 at 14:50

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 01 '16 at 14:46

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You should change the remote repo. See Git Basics | Working with Remotes.

git remote add origin /path-or-URL/to-repo

answered Aug 01 '16 at 14:46

bahrep

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When doing "git remote add origin github.com/my_account/my_repo.git"; I get "fatal: remote origin already exists.". – drake035 Aug 03 '16 at 15:52
@drake035 replace origin with another name. – bahrep Aug 03 '16 at 15:52

blue112 · Accepted Answer · 2016-08-02T15:09:34.167

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Just add a new remote.

git remote add myrepo myuser@myserver
git push myrepo mybranch

If you want mybranch to always push to myrepo, change the tracking information:

git push -u myrepo mybranch

edited Aug 02 '16 at 15:09

answered Aug 01 '16 at 14:46

blue112

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When doing "git remote add origin https://github.com/my_account/my_repo.git" I get "fatal: remote origin already exists.". I tried to delete my repo but still got the same error. Any idea why? – drake035 Aug 01 '16 at 17:06
@drake035 Do not name it `origin`. Name it `myrepo`, literally. – blue112 Aug 02 '16 at 07:24
Thanks, worked (no error message this time). Then I did "git push" and it tried to push to old repo. Argh :( – drake035 Aug 02 '16 at 14:45
@drake035 Updated. – blue112 Aug 02 '16 at 15:09

Cloning from a repo then pushing to a different one

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