How to view and change your remote repository in GitHub?

In your Git repository, run the command

git remote -v

to “verify” your remote repository definition.

This should show something like

~/Code/subQuery/projects/subql-starter$ git remote -v
origin	https://github.com/seandotau/subql-starter.git (fetch)
origin	https://github.com/seandotau/subql-starter.git (push)

To add another “origin”, run the command

git remote add origin1 git@github.com:<username/repo.git>

For example:

git remote add origin1 git@github.com:jimbob7/subql-helloworld.git 
https://github.com/jimbob7/subql-helloworld.git

Note that you have to use a unique name. Now run remote -v again

~/Code/subQuery/projects/subql-helloworld$ git remote -v
origin	https://github.com/subquery/subql-helloworld (fetch)
origin	https://github.com/subquery/subql-helloworld (push)
origin1	git@github.com:jimbob7/subql-helloworld.git (fetch)
origin1	git@github.com:jimbob7/subql-helloworld.git (push)

To remove a remote, run

git remote rm origin1

Why would you want to do this?

You would want to do this if you are cloning from one repo and you want to push to another repo. Note that you need to have permission on the repo that you are pushing to so make sure the repo owner has given you (and you have accepted) the invitation.