Git, being a distributed source control system, allows us to switch the remote/origin for the push or fetch of our local repository. Or to put it another way…

We’ve just moved from one remote git repository to another, how do we update our local code base to “retarget” to the new location?

When you’re using GitHub, GitLab, bitbucket etc. you might come to a point where you migrate from one server to another. Ofcourse you can simply clone your repo. again from the new server OR you can just target you fetch/push origin to the new location like this…

To check your current remote/origin, just run

git remote -v

Now if you wish to change the remote/origin, simply use

git remote set-url remote_name remote_url

Where remote_name might be origin and the remote_url is the new .git URL of your server.