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Asked: 2026-05-13T00:48:28+00:00

I created a local GIT repository on Windows. Let’s call it AAA. I staged,

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I created a local GIT repository on Windows. Let’s call it AAA. I staged, committed, and pushed the contents to GitHub. git@github.com:username/AAA.git

I realized I made a mistake with the name.

On GitHub, I renamed it to git@github.com:username/BBB.git

Now, on my Windows machine, I need to change git@github.com:username/AAA.git to git@github.com:username/BBB.git because the settings are still trying to “push” to git@github.com:username/AAA.git but I need to push to git@github.com:username/BBB.git now.

How could I do that?

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  1. Editorial Team

    The easiest way to tweak this in my opinion (imho) is to edit the .git/config file in your repository. Look for the entry you messed up and just tweak the URL.

    On my machine in a repo I regularly use it looks like this:

    KidA% cat .git/config 
[core]
    repositoryformatversion = 0
    filemode = true
    bare = false
    logallrefupdates = true
    ignorecase = true
    autocflg = true
[remote "origin"]
    url = ssh://localhost:8888/opt/local/var/git/project.git
    #url = ssh://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:80/opt/local/var/git/project.git
    fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*

    The line you see commented out is an alternative address for the repository that I sometimes switch to simply by changing which line is commented out.

    This is the file that is getting manipulated under-the-hood when you run something like git remote rm or git remote add but in this case since its only a typo you made it might make sense to correct it this way.

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