fatal: could not unset 'remote.origin.url'

Question

I've observed that my Git repository has two remotes for origin because when I run this:

git config --get-regexp 'remote\\.origin\\..*'

I get two results:

remote.origin.url https://user:password@my-repo:7990
remote.origin.url http://my-repo.com:7990/scm/my-project.git

However, I fail to delete either of them. For instance, if I try to delete the first one, like this:

git remote set-url --delete origin https://user:password@my-repo:7990

I get:

fatal: could not unset 'remote.origin.url'

Any idea why this error appears?

Answer 1

You can remove the remote origin then add again.

$ git remote rm origin                   # remove a first remote
$ git remote -v

# if you see your second origin
$ git remote rm origin                   # remove the second origin

$ git remote add origin <repo-url>       # add new origin

$ git remote -v                          # see all the remotes you have