How to 'git push' to a repo that was cloned as read-only onto my team's staging server

Question

I cloned a repo using its GitHub read-only URL onto my team's staging server. I made some changes there to the config files.

I'd like to change the repo clone on the server to be read-write, so that I can 'git push' the config file changes.

How do I do this?

Or is there a better 'best practice' way to deal with this scenario than committing from the staging server?

Answer 1

I'd take a diff from the staging server and apply it in a development environment via patch(1).

Answer 2

open up .git/config in your favorite text editor and change the remote url to the read+write url that github shows you.

Answer 3

From GitHub Working with remote help page:

Changing a remote’s URL

There is no direct command to change a remote’s URL, so you will usually run git remote rm followed by git remote add to change a URL.
You can also edit the repo’s .git/config file directly to change the URL without re-fetching the remote.

I would recommend (see this SO question):

git remote set-url origin git://new.url.here

Using git command is always preferable to modifying directly a git config file manually.