Publishing Existing Repo to New Location

Let’s say you fork a public open source repo to your laptop, then decide you’re ready to publish it to your own repository.

So if I clone a public repo:

➜ git clone https://github.com/sedkis/auth-plugin
clone complete
➜ git remote -v
origin	git@github.com:sedkis/auth-plugin.git (fetch)
origin	git@github.com:sedkis/auth-plugin.git (push)

It’s pointing at the old repo. If I’m ready to publish this repo to another host, then first I create my new repo on GitHub (or wherever), then change git origin to it and push:

➜ git remote rm origin
➜ git remote add origin git@github.com:new-origin/auth-plugin.git
➜ git remote -v
origin	git@github.com:your-repo/auth-plugin.git (fetch)
origin	git@github.com:your-repo/auth-plugin.git (push)
➜ git push

Viola! published code to my own repo.