How to change a connection to GitHub from SSH to HTTPS?

Question

I created my first repository in GitHub yesterday. When making the connection I used SSH instead of HTTPS, so I went through a little painful SSH key creation and connection process. At some point I got stuck and the connection failed. I wondered at that moment how I could revert the process I started and begin with a HTTPS connection instead. Happily, today I got the connection working through SSH but I'm wondering about the value of being able to change the type of connection (SSH vs HTTPS) and if there is a way to do it.

Solution 1

Assuming your remote is called origin, run

• git remote set-url origin https://...
• git remote set-url --push origin https://...

You can view the configured remotes with git remote -v, which should now show your updated URLs.

See the documentation for git-remote for more details.

Solution 2

here are some aliases (oneliners) to switch your repo from ssh to https and back. Assuming your default remote is named origin and your remote is github.com

alias git-https="git remote set-url origin https://github.com/$(git remote get-url origin | sed 's/https:\/\/github.com\///' | sed 's/[email protected]://')"
alias git-ssh="  git remote set-url origin [email protected]:$(    git remote get-url origin | sed 's/https:\/\/github.com\///' | sed 's/[email protected]://')"

they're a bit longer than necessary to make them idempotent