Re: How to remove invalid remote repository

From: Jan Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz>
Date: Jun 5, 2007, 20:14 UTC
Message-ID: <20070605201457.GB3240@efreet.light.src>
In-Reply-To: <8A00BB77B01133479F4A56D932A1132202906FD8@EX-401.mail.navisite.com>

On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 14:41:04 -0500, Matt Seitz wrote:

> I mistakenly entered the wrong directory name for "git remote add" (I
> entered the working tree directory name instead of the ".git" directory
> name).

There does not seem to be any 'git remote remove'. So you'll do it by changing the config. Either with git-config, or by editing .git/config (it *IS* meant to be hand-edited).

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> [...]
> So, how can I remove the incorrect remote repository reference and
> replace it with a correct one?
> 
> [root@demo5 etc]# git config -l
> [...]
> remote.root-etc.url=/root/git/etc

                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This is the URL. You can simply fix it either with 
    git-config remote.root-etc.url /root/git/etc/.git
or by editing
.git/config

> remote.root-etc.fetch=+refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/root-etc/*

The section corresponding to these two entries in .git/config looks like:

[remote "root-etc"] url = /root/git/etc fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/root-etc/*

You can tweak it to your heart's content. The documentation is in man pages of git-config and git-fetch.

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						 Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz>