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