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Asked: 2026-05-25T06:26:20+00:00

I have a repository, say abc/myprject.git . I have this repo on a server

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I have a repository, say abc/myprject.git. I have this repo on a server from where I pull my code. Now I have forked this repository, naming it chirag/myproject.git.

I have two questions, with regards to this:

  1. I want to use chirag/myproject.git repo instead of the original one now, so how do I change it on the server from abc/myproject.git to the forked one chirag/myproject.git?
  2. And after I’ve changed the repo on the server, if I delete abc/myproject.git, will it cause any issues with chirag/myproject.git?

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  1. Editorial Team

    1. Use git remote set-url to change the URL of the origin remote (if you didn’t change anything, the remote repository will be named origin).

      git remote set-url origin git://someserver/chirag/myproject.git

    2. If there’s no “physical” relationship between the both repositories at abc/myproject.git and chirag/myproject.git you won’t run into any problems when deleting the first one. Git is a distributed version control system that produces full, independent repositories upon cloning.
      With “physical” relationship” I mean something like softlinks when both repositories reside on the same filesystem or something similar.

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