GitHub fatal remote origin already exists

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I am trying to follow along Michael Hartl s Rails tutorial but I ve run across an error    I signed up on Github and issued a new SSH key and made a new repository  But when I enter the next line into the terminal I get the following error   Parkers-MacBook-Pro  ssh ppreyer  git remote add origin git github com ppreyer first app git fatal  remote origin already exists    Just wondered if anybody else has run across this problem

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In case you want to do via GUI do the following    Ensure  hidden files  are visible in your project folder Go to  git directory Edit the url file in the config txt file and save the file

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That error message indicates that you already have a remote in your git directory  If you are satisfied with that remote  your can push your code  If not or if you can t push just   git remote remove origin git remote add origin git github com ppreyer first app git   Voil

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For those of you running into the ever so common error  fatal  remote origin already exists    or when trying to remove origin and you get  error  could not remove config section remote origin   what you need to do is to set the origin manually    Window s POSH Git for Windows PowerShell  and GitHub for Windows  app  has a problem with this   I ran into this  like I do so often  again when setting up my octopress   So  here s how I got it working    First  check your remotes   C  gd code octopress  source  2  3 -0    gt  git remote -v octopress       https   github com imathis octopress git  fetch  octopress       https   github com imathis octopress git  push  origin   You ll first note that my origin has no url   Any attempt to remove it  rename it  etc all fails   So  change the url manually   git remote set-url --add origin https   github com eduncan911 eduncan911 github io git   Then you can confirm it worked by running git remote -v again   C  gd code octopress  source  2  3 -0    gt  git remote -v octopress       https   github com imathis octopress git  fetch  octopress       https   github com imathis octopress git  push  origin  https   github com eduncan911 eduncan911 github io git  fetch  origin  https   github com eduncan911 eduncan911 github io git  push    This has fixed dozens of git repos I ve had issues with  GitHub  BitBucket GitLab  etc

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It can also happen if you run the command in directory without git initialized  If that s the case run first   git init

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for using git you have to be      root   if not then use sudo      for removing origin         git remote remove origin   for adding origin     git remote add origin http   giturl

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Try this   cd existing repo git remote rename origin old-origin

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if you already add project for another storage  like you upload to github and then you upload to bitbucket then it shows this type of Error   How to remove Error  delete git-hub file in your project and then repeat the following steps     git init        git remote add origin git bitbucket org Yourname firstdemotry git   git add -A   git commit -m  Message    git push -u origin master

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update the origin if it exist already using this command   git remote set-url origin https   github com SriramUmapathy ReduxLearning git

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facing same error while add repository to git hun using git bash on windows    git remote add origin https   github com axaysushir netflix page clone git   fatal  remote origin already exists   fatal  remote origin already exists       rejected         master - gt  master  fetch first    error  failed to push some refs to  https   github com axaysushir meditation app using js git      Update repository by following command     git remote set-url origin https   github com axaysushir netflix page clone git      then add repository using git remote add github instead git remote add origin     git remote add github https   github com axaysushir netflix page clone git      And then write following command instead of git push origin master this will upload your repository to github     git push github master

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The concept of remote is simply the URL of your remote repository   The origin is an alias pointing to that URL  So instead of writing the whole URL every single time we want to push something to our repository  we just use this alias and run   git push -u origin master  Telling to git to push our code from our local master branch to the remote origin repository    Whenever we clone a repository  git creates this alias for us by default  Also whenever we create a new repository  we just create it our self    Whatever the case it is  we can always change this name to anything we like  running this   git remote rename  current-name   new-name    Since it is stored on the client side of the git application  on our machine  changing it will not affect anything in our development process  neither at our remote repository  Remember  it is only a name pointing to an address   The only thing that changes here by renaming the alias  is that we have to declare this new name every time we push something to our repository    git push -u my-remote-alias master  Obviously a single name can not point to two different addresses  That s why you get this error message  There is already an alias named origin at your local machine  To see how many aliases you have and what are they  you can initiate this command   git remote -v   This will show you all the aliases you have plus the corresponding URLs   You can remove them as well if you like running this   git remote rm my-remote-alias   So in brief    find out what do you have already  remove or rename them  add your new aliases    Happy coding

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In Short   git remote rm origin git remote add origin git github com username myapp git   Worked    Cheers

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You can see what remote repositories you are configured to connect to via  git remote -v   That will return a list in this format   origin  git github com github git-reference git  fetch  origin  git github com github git-reference git  push    That might help you figure out what the original  origin  pointed to   If you want to keep the remote connection that you see with the -v  but still want to follow the Rails tutorial without having to remember  github   or some other name  for your tutorial s repo  you can rename your other repository with the command   git remote rename  current name   new name    as in   git remote rename origin oldrepo   You should then be able to resume your tutorial

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If you need to check which remote repos you have connected with your local repos  theres a cmd   git remote -v   Now if you want to remove the remote repo  say  origin  then what you can do is   git remote rm origin

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On bash at least  we can force the return value of the exit code of the command to be 0  You can remove the old remote and add it again  git remote remove  1    true git remote add  1  2

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git remote add origin git gitlab com abc backend abc git  In this command origin is not part of command it is just name of your remote repository  You can use any name you want    First You can check that what it contains using below command     git remote -v  It will gives you result like this  origin  git gitlab com abc backend abc git  fetch  origin  git gitlab com abc backend abc git  push  origin1 git gitlab com abc backend abc git  fetch  origin1 git gitlab com abc backend abc git  push   if it contains your remote repository path then you can directly push to that without adding origin again   If it is not contaning your remote repository path   Then you can add new origin with different name and use that to push like   git remote add origin101 git gitlab com abc backend abc git  Or you can rename existing origin name add your origin  git remote rename origin destination  fire below command again    git remote -v  destination     git gitlab com abc backend abc git  fetch  destination     git gitlab com abc backend abc git  push   It will change your existing repos name so you can use that origin name  Or you can just remove your existing origin and add your origin  git remote rm destination

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TL DR you should just update the existing remote     git remote set-url origin git github com ppreyer first app git   Long version   As the error message indicates  there is already a remote configured with the same name  So you can either add the new remote with a different name or update the existing one if you don t need it   To add a new remote  called for example github instead of origin  which obviously already exists in your system   do the following     git remote add github git github com ppreyer first app git   Remember though  everywhere in the tutorial you see  origin  you should replace it with  github   For example   git push origin master should now be   git push github master   However  if you want to see what that origin which already exists is  you can do a   git remote -v  If you think this is there by some error  you can update it like so     git remote set-url origin git github com ppreyer first app git

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First check To see how many aliases you have and what are they  you can initiate this command git remote -v  Then see in which repository you are in then try git remote set-url --add  Then your repositpory link  git push -u origin master

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In the special case that you are creating a new repository starting from an old repository that you used as template  Don t do this if this is not your case   Completely erase the git files of the old repository so you can start a new one   rm -rf  git   And then restart a new git repository as usual   git init git add whatever wvr   git add --all  if you want to add all files  git commit -m  first commit  git remote add origin git github com ppreyer first app git git push -u origin master

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First do a   git remote rm origin   then   git remote add origin https   github com your user your app git   and voila  Worked for me

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