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vongoh
vongoh

Reputation: 1

Git: How to change origin on locally cloned branch

I have a front-end Sass framework I am building on my local drive. I started this project by cloning a different project that is also on my local drive.

Now I need this framework to be an independent copy from that other master.

The .git/config for this framework:

[remote "origin"]
    url = S:/grunt-test
    fetch = +refs/heads/ruby-sass-susy:refs/remotes/origin/ruby-sass-susy
[branch "master"]
    remote = origin
    merge = refs/heads/ruby-sass-susy

How do I safely modify this so that this framework completely disconnects from the original repo?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 314

Answers (1)

riptidebyte
riptidebyte

Reputation: 166

Run the following two commands and set [NEW_SRC] to the location of your new repository:

git remote rm origin 
git remote add origin [NEW_SRC]

This will change your .git/config file and remove the reference to the old repository. Of course, you don't need to set a new origin.

If you have any tracking branches for this origin, you might also want to untrack those with: git branch -d -r origin/<remote branch name>

Upvotes: 1

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