How to fix "fatal: remote origin already exists." on 'git remote add'?

Question

I want to create a git repository on my USB stick. On the stick I created a bare git repository by using the command

git init --bare MyRepo

and in the repository on the laptop (Ubuntu 14.04) I issued the following commands

git init
git add .
git commit -m 'first commit'
git remote add origin /media/alexander/Stick/MyRepo

and got the error

fatal: remote origin already exists.

I successfully created a git repo on the stick just before without any error (using different directories of course). Now I get this error. The output of 'git status' is

On branch master
Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'.

nothing to commit, working directory clean

So what is going wrong?

Answer 1

Remove the remote origin first, then add again with the path.

$ git remote rm origin
$ git remote add origin <repo-url> 

Another way: Set the origin's url instead of adding.

$ git remote set-url origin <repo-url>