LINUX | Git: How to change the remote URL of a repository?

Let’s first display the remote URL that is set for the repository.

$ git remote -v
origin https://github.com/USER/my-repo-main.git (fetch)
origin https://github.com/USER/my-repo-main.git (push)

Option 1:

If we want to change the URL that is set to that of a different user USER2, then we can do that by issuing the command

$ git remote set-url origin https://github.com/USER2/my-repo-main.git

Option 2:

Another workaround for this task is to edit .git/config file and replace the url present in the file to that of the new git URL.

$ cat .git/config
[core]
…..
[remote “origin”]
url = https://github.com/USER/my-repo-main.git

$ sudo vi .git/config
[core]
…..
[remote “origin”]
url = https://github.com/USER2/my-repo-main.git