Question

How do you change the git repository a rail app is pushed to? I know that this is possible because I did it a few weeks back.

Basically I have two very different versions of a app on my local machine. I would like the initial app to still point to the old repository. However, the new version needs to be placed in a completely separate repository.

When I run git init in myapps/old_app/ it puts Reinitialized existing Git repository in /Users/jamespollard/rails/old_repository/.git/

AND

When I run git init in myapps/new_app/ it puts Reinitialized existing Git repository in /Users/jamespollard/rails/new_repository/.git/

However, when I try and git push anything to the repository, it still goes to the old_repository.

Updates

If I enter $ git remote origin set-url [e-mail]:mygithub/myapp.git
I get

error: Unknown subcommand: origin
usage: git remote [-v | --verbose]
    or: git remote add [-t <branch>] [-m <master>] [-f] [--mirror=<fetch|push>] <name> <url>
    or: git remote rename <old> <new>
    or: git remote rm <name>
    or: git remote set-head <name> (-a | -d | <branch>)
    or: git remote [-v | --verbose] show [-n] <name>
    or: git remote prune [-n | --dry-run] <name>
    or: git remote [-v | --verbose] update [-p | --prune] [(<group> | <remote>)...]
    or: git remote set-branches <name> [--add] <branch>...
    or: git remote set-url <name> <newurl> [<oldurl>]
    or: git remote set-url --add <name> <newurl>
    or: git remote set-url --delete <name> <url>
    -v, --verbose         be verbose; must be placed before a subcommand

If I enter $ git remote set-url [e-mail]:mygithub/myapp.git I get the same error message as above (minus the origin error). In either case, if I run git push origin master it still pushes to the old repository. I’ve tried adding the new repository again with the same name, but I get a error (which i would expect) saying that it already exists.

Answer 1

Create a new repository in GitHub for you new app, if you haven’t already. Make that new repository as origin to your new repository:

git remote add origin <github_url>

If the remote already exists, you might have to git remote set-url origin <github_url>

Now, push to the repo.