Git remote repository tutorial and with set-url origin upstream example

Keep your forked repo up to date or if the repo changes location, or you clone the original / parent repo and then you make a fork, it is easy to update your cloned version that is locally to point to another location with 1 or 2 simple git CLI commands.
Example commands
$ git remote -v
$ git remote remove origin
$ git remote add origin [URL]
$ git remote set-url origin [URL]
Shoutout
Thanks Nicholas Carrigan for the alternative suggestion which is even easier. Follow Nicholas on
Twitter / nhcarrigan
GitHub github.com/nhcarrigan
Git remote official docs git-scm.com/docs/git-remote
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[@eddiejaoude]

How do you change the repo remote?

[@alrifay]

git remote set-url 😁

[@eddiejaoude]

@@alrifay that is the better way! :)

[@janusu]

Lifesaver!! Thanks for this short and to-the-point tutorial. And have a 👍 while you're at it.
I used the first approach you demonstrated because I could understand more clearly what was happening.

[@eddiejaoude]

Glad it helped! Thank you for the great feedback and support Kent!

[@raulalvarado7025]

This video is by far the cleanest explanation to set up upstream and why great video!!

[@eddiejaoude]

Thank you so much Raul for that amazing feedback!

[@itsbond007]

This was very informative.
Thanks for making this video Eddie 🙂

[@eddiejaoude]

Thank you for the awesome feedback 👍

[@sergio_saad]

great video, simple, direct to the point. Cangrats.

[@eddiejaoude]

Much appreciated!

[@nimitsavant3127]

Wow, Thanks that was so cool!

[@eddiejaoude]

Thank you Nimit for the great feedback! I am glad it helped :)

[@CareerProgramming]

Great tutorial!

[@eddiejaoude]

Thank you 👍🤓

[@Vamsibl]

It is very helpful thanks.

[@eddiejaoude]

Thank you for the great feedback and support 👍

[@nimitsavant3127]

I come here every week, when will I remember this D:
Thank @Eddi Jaoude for the wonderful video :D

[@eddiejaoude]

lol thank you! no worries, it happens. I appreciate the great feedback! Let me know what videos you would like to see?

[@alrifay]

First 🎉😎

[@eddiejaoude]

Thanks Mohamed! :)

[@sourena_pa]

Thank you Eddie 🎖

[@eddiejaoude]

Thank you for the great feedback!

[@dorandegeb]

Thank you it came so handy

[@eddiejaoude]

Great 🎉🎉 thank you

[@narayanaswamy6329]

Thanks eddie, for this video

[@eddiejaoude]

No problem. Thank you for the great feedback. Let me know what other videos you would like to see?

[@JaberAhmed4770]

Thank you! love from Bangladesh!

[@eddiejaoude]

Glad it was useful, thank you for the great feedback Jaber!

[@JaberAhmed4770]

@@eddiejaoude Welcome

[@eddiejaoude]

@@JaberAhmed4770 btw let me know what other videos you would like to see?

[@JaberAhmed4770]

@@eddiejaoude yeah!
I will see.

[@munysovannthoeunvy5613]

Thanks sir you saved me :)

[@eddiejaoude]

Awesome! Thank you for the great feedback 👍

[@wzup23]

thanks dude

[@eddiejaoude]

Happy to help

[@ishuchauhan7138]

nicee

[@bagup_alpharetards]

Awesome explanation !! keep it up.

[@eddiejaoude]

Thank you for the great feedback 👍 I have more videos coming very soon. Any videos you would like to see?

[@bagup_alpharetards]

@@eddiejaoude Yes !! it would be awesome if you make some related to github.

[@eddiejaoude]

@@bagup_alpharetards thank you for the feedback. Have you seen this free mini bootcamp I did on GitHub? ruclips.net/video/SYtPC9tHYyQ/видео.html

[@bagup_alpharetards]

@@eddiejaoude I haven't yet but sure i will watch it today. Thanks man !!

[@eddiejaoude]

@@bagup_alpharetards awesome! let me know your feedback on it and I can do a part 2 if anything is missing :)

[@bb-so2ob]

@Eddie Jaoude After adding as per the video, i see error as "fatal: couldn't find remote ref upstream" when I try to pull using "git pull origin upstream". I have added my original repo as upstream, forked repo as origin.

[@eddiejaoude]

Could you join the EddieHub Discord, it is easier to problem solve there discord.eddiehub.org

[@nikhilbhat8443]

Hi, is there a way we can pull from the original repo and push my changes to my forked repo? I mean, can we also give a url while doing git pull, eg - git pull upstream ??

[@eddiejaoude]

yes of course, you select destination first
git pull origin "BRANCH-NAME"
git push remote "BRANCH-NAME"

[@hattorihanzo8788]

Good video. Can you please provide an update. Seems like when you fork a repo now, you have the upstream already configured.

[@eddiejaoude]

oh sure, let me take a look, thank you

[@gamingheroyt5354]

Which software You used for the changes bro

[@eddiejaoude]

I use zsh in my terminal

[@chrisdebrah9295]

i created a folder with files in it on my local machine without a github repo and i wanted to now push it to github without creating a new repo at the github website but i want to create it automatically by pushing it there. is that possible?

[@eddiejaoude]

I think you can use the GitHub CLI to do it, but you can't do it with git alone

[@mitravindgarg5372]

How are you able to clone if you don't have access to mhxion account ? Please correct me if I am wrong that if a user is able to clone a repository then same user should be able to push data on that repository. Awaiting your response...Great Video Otherwise..Good Work !

[@eddiejaoude]

We can clone any public repo. Public repos have read access to everyone, but they ca not push because they do not have write access. I hope that makes sense. Any questions let me know :)

[@skepticgoat7591]

how do i do a git pull from the upstrem? if i i do git fetch upstream and git pull it will pull from the origin?

[@eddiejaoude]

You need to do the following...
1. git fetch upstream
2. git merge upstream/main

[@TrendyTales-ep9yq]

will this work if my original source code is in github repo and I am mirroring it in my bitbucket repo. How will I update my bitbucket repo with new changes from github?

[@eddiejaoude]

Each location will have it's own remote

[@TrendyTales-ep9yq]

@@eddiejaoude sir can you please explain it in brief , sorry but I didnt get it.