Remote origin already exists on 'git push' to a new repository

Question

I have my project on GitHub at some location, [email protected]:myname/oldrep.git.

Now I want to push all my code to a new repository at some other location, [email protected]:newname/newrep.git.

I used the command:

git remote add origin [email protected]:myname/oldrep.git 

but I am receiving this:

fatal: remote origin already exists.

Answer 1

You are getting this error because "origin" is not available. "origin" is a convention not part of the command. "origin" is the local name of the remote repository.

For example you could also write:

git remote add myorigin [email protected]:myname/oldrep.git   git remote add testtest [email protected]:myname/oldrep.git 

See the manual:

http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-remote.html

To remove a remote repository you enter:

git remote rm origin 

Again "origin" is the name of the remote repository if you want to remove the "upstream" remote:

git remote rm upstream 

Answer 2

The previous solutions seem to ignore origin, and they only suggest to use another name. When you just want to use git push origin, keep reading.

The problem appears because a wrong order of Git configuration is followed. You might have already added a 'git origin' to your .git configuration.

You can change the remote origin in your Git configuration with the following line:

git remote set-url origin [email protected]:username/projectname.git 

This command sets a new URL for the Git repository you want to push to. Important is to fill in your own username and projectname