Git: says origin already exists on “NEW” (init) repository, using shell but installed Github for Windows

Question

I installed Git for Windows, although I am using the shell not the Windows interface.

If I do a git init, and then try and do a

 git remote         


        

Answer 1

I'm the developer who put this in. Here's why I added this to the system gitconfig, it's pretty useful!

## Because of this change, git fetch knows about PRs
git fetch

## Now, I can merge PRs by number
git merge origin/pr/24

## See changes from PR #53
git diff master...origin/pr/53

## Get the commit log from PR #25
git log origin/pr/25

Unfortunately, this does have the consequence that the origin remote always exists, even when it doesn't.

Workaround

Whenever you see git remote add origin https://..., instead:

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