How To Change Your Git Remote Repo For Pushing Projects

When you “push a project” with Git, you’re sending your code to a remote repository – usually on a service like GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket. Changing the repo for pushing means telling Git, “From now on, send my changes there instead.”

This is controlled by something called a remote URL. You don’t need to re‑create your project or re‑initialize Git; you just update this setting.

Below is a clear walkthrough of how this works, what can vary based on your setup, and how different situations change the steps.

What Does It Mean To Change the Repo You Push To?

In Git terms, “change repo for pushing” usually means at least one of these:

• Switch the URL of the existing remote (for example, you renamed a repo or moved from HTTPS to SSH).
• Point the repo to a completely different remote repository (for example, moving from GitHub to GitLab).
• Add a new remote and use that instead of the old one (for example, keeping origin but adding a backup remote).

The key concept is the remote:

• A remote is a nickname (like origin or upstream) for a repository URL.
• Each remote has one or more URLs that Git uses to fetch and push.

You see them with: