git remote rename command help

Michael Woodard· Nov 1, 2025, 01:38 UTC · lore

Hello,

I entered the command "git remote rename Old_Name New_Name" but it appears to only have affected the Local Repo I am working with. Other requests or connections to remote repo still see the Old_Name. What am I missing?

Michael Woodard | SP+ | A Metropolis Company | Manager, IT Operations

Mobile: 251.463.2791

Ben Knoble· Nov 1, 2025, 23:45 UTC · re: Michael Woodard · lore

Re: git remote rename command help

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> Le 31 oct. 2025 à 21:51, Michael Woodard <mwoodard@metropolis.io> a écrit :
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I entered the command "git remote rename Old_Name New_Name" but it
> appears to only have affected the Local Repo I am working with. Other
> requests or connections to remote repo still see the Old_Name. What am
> I missing?
> 
> Michael Woodard | SP+ | A Metropolis Company | Manager, IT Operations
> 
> Mobile: 251.463.2791

What, precisely, do you mean by “other connections”? A remote name is a local-only concept (effectively a pointer to a resource locator and other metadata, like a fetch refspec). If you expected this to, say, change the name of a repository on a server, that’s not really what this command does.

PS I’m surprised to see a phone number :) I expect you are inundated with spam messages (voice or text).