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Rubén Esparza
Rubén Esparza

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How to change the origin of my repository?

Usually you need change the remote target of your repository when you download a template project, the url of remote target are change or something like that...

In this post we take the example of vscode-stories-api, because all need stories in ours apps or not?

What is origin

Origin is only one aliases for remote repository url, like environment variable in your OS.

What is the remote origin of repository

Get remote origin

$ git remote -v
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git-remote-v

Remove remote origin

$ git remote remove origin
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git-remote-remove

Verify origin

$ git remote -v
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git-remote-remove-verify

Add remote origin

$ git remote add origin [repository url]
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git-remote-add-origin

Verify the new origin

$ git remote -v
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git-remote-add-origin-verify

Conclusion

Now our origin repository it's the repository of vs-code-stories extension new owner!

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