Git - Fatal: Will not delete all non-push URLs

Question

When trying to remove the default url in my repo, I issued the command:

git remote set-url --delete origin https://github.com/dpressey/barberapp.git

I received the error as shown above in the title. How do I delete this "https" url and then add an "ssh" url, so that i can push to it?

Answer 1

From Git's remote documentation, --delete should work with:

git remote set-url --push --delete origin [https://github.com/dpressey/barberapp.git]

because the syntax is --delete <name> <url> where <url> is a regular expression.

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As a side note, it should be pointed that there is also git remote rm <name> that deletes every remotes matching the given name, whatever the URLs.

Answer 2

If you want to reset the origin to a different url, you can directly override it:

$ git remote set-url origin ssh://yournewurl

and verify it using:

$ git remote -v