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Development Tools Git Basics Working With Remote Repositories Pushing and Pulling

Posted by Abbey Jackson
Abbey Jackson
1,660 Points

Changed directory name, now it doesn't work

So I changed the directory name of the directory my origin repository is in. I had named it something different and decided I wanted to use the same names as in the video to keep things less confusing.

When I did this it seems to have lost the repository. I tried to fix it on my own and ended up deleting the repository completely and having to redo everything to get back caught up to this point.

Can someone tell me how I would fix this without hurting a project should I make this mistake in the future again?

1 Answer

Ash Matadeen
Ash Matadeen
Courses Plus Student 7,185 Points

After renaming the origin directory, cd into your cloned repository and run

git remote set-url origin /path/to/newdirectoryname

This will update git with the new location of your origin repository.

Abbey Jackson
Abbey Jackson
1,660 Points

Thank you so much :)

Abbey Jackson
Abbey Jackson
1,660 Points

Thank you so much :)