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bsky
bsky

Reputation: 20222

fatal: could not unset 'remote.origin.url'

I've observed that my Git repository has two remotes for origin because when I run this:

git config --get-regexp 'remote\\.origin\\..*'

I get two results:

remote.origin.url https://user:password@my-repo:7990
remote.origin.url http://my-repo.com:7990/scm/my-project.git

However, I fail to delete either of them. For instance, if I try to delete the first one, like this:

git remote set-url --delete origin https://user:password@my-repo:7990

I get:

fatal: could not unset 'remote.origin.url'

Any idea why this error appears?

Upvotes: 9

Views: 11067

Answers (3)

Augusto Jara
Augusto Jara

Reputation: 121

If it is a remote added with --push option you have to use --push option again to delete the remote like this:

git remote set-url --delete --push <remote_name> <remote_url_to_delete>

This will only delete the URL, not the remote.

I was having the same issue with a pushable remote added with --add --push option like this:

git remote set-url --add --push <remote_name> <remote_url>

This is usually made to have diferent URLs to the same remote to push changes faster to diferent places.

If you would like to do that, after adding the URLs you just have to use:

git push <remote> <branch>

And it will push to every URL added to your remote

Upvotes: 3

Zartog
Zartog

Reputation: 1926

git unset-all remote.origin.push

Upvotes: 0

Sajib Khan
Sajib Khan

Reputation: 24136

You can remove the remote origin then add again.

$ git remote rm origin                   # remove a first remote
$ git remote -v

# if you see your second origin
$ git remote rm origin                   # remove the second origin

$ git remote add origin <repo-url>       # add new origin

$ git remote -v                          # see all the remotes you have

Upvotes: 11

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