How to change the remote a branch is tracking?

Using git v1.8.0 or later:

git branch branch_name --set-upstream-to your_new_remote/branch_name

Or you can use the -u switch

git branch branch_name -u your_new_remote/branch_name

Using git v1.7.12 or earlier

git branch --set-upstream branch_name your_new_remote/branch_name

For me the fix was:

git remote set-url origin https://some_url/some_repo

Then:

git push

With an up to date git (2.5.5) the command is the following :

git branch --set-upstream-to=origin/branch

This will update the remote tracked branch for your current local branch

Another option to have a lot of control over what's happening is to edit your configurations by hand:

git config --edit

or the shorthand

git config -e

Then edit the file at will, save and your modifications will be applied.

If you're sane about it, editing the config file's safe enough. If you want to be a little more paranoid, you can use the porcelain command to modify it:

git config branch.master.remote newserver

Of course, if you look at the config before and after, you'll see that it did exactly what you were going to do.

But in your individual case, what I'd do is:

git remote rename origin old-origin
git remote rename new-origin origin

That is, if the new server is going to be the canonical remote, why not call it origin as if you'd originally cloned from it?

This is the easiest command:

git push --set-upstream <new-origin> <branch-to-track>

For example, given the command git remote -v produces something like:

origin  ssh://git@bitbucket.some.corp/~myself/projectr.git (fetch)
origin  ssh://git@bitbucket.some.corp/~myself/projectr.git (push)
team    ssh://git@bitbucket.some.corp/vbs/projectr.git (fetch)
team    ssh://git@bitbucket.some.corp/vbs/projectr.git (push)

To change to tracking the team instead:

git push --set-upstream team master

git fetch origin
git checkout --track -b local_branch_name origin/branch_name

or

git fetch
git checkout -b local_branch_name origin/branch_name

You could either delete your current branch and do:

git branch --track local_branch remote_branch

Or change change remote server to the current one in the config

Based on what I understand from the latest git documentation, the synopsis is:

git branch -u upstream-branch local-branch
git branch --set-upstream-to=upstream-branch local-branch

This usage seems to be a bit different than urschrei's answer, as in his the synopsis is:

git branch local-branch -u upstream-branch 
git branch local-branch --set-upstream-to=upstream-branch 

I'm guessing they changed the documentation again?

I've found @critikaster's post helpful, except that I had to perform these commands with GIT 2.21:

$ git remote set-url origin https://some_url/some_repo
$ git push --set-upstream origin master

Based on the git documentation the best way is:

be sure the actual origin path:

git remote -v

Then make the change with:

git remote set-url origin

where url-repository is the same URL that we get from the clone option.

In latest git version like 2.7.4,

git checkout branch_name #branch name which you want to change tracking branch

git branch --set-upstream-to=upstream/tracking_branch_name #upstream - remote name

the easiest way is to simply push to the new branch:

git push -u origin branch/name

After trying the above and searching, searching, etc. I realized none of my changes were on the server that were on my local branch and Visual Studio in Team Explorer did not indicate this branch tracked a remote branch. The remote branch was there, so it should have worked. I ended up deleting the remote branch on github and 're' Push my local branch that had my changes that were not being tracked for an unknown reason.

By deleting the remote branch and 're' Push my local branch that was not being tracked, the local branch was re-created on git hub. I tried to this at the command prompt (using Windows) I could not get my local branch to track the remote branch until I did this. Everything is back to normal.

I tried lots of solution but this one worked for me from Bitbucket to Azure Devops Migration:

Create Repository git clone Source URL git config --global --unset credential.helper git config credential.helper store git remote rm origin git remote add origin URL to NEW repo git push origin --all In case error use git push -f origin --all In case error in access or identity go to branch-->select branch->3 dots-->branch security --> allow force push git push --tags