How do I remove duplicate git remotes from local ist?

Question

I was playing around with pushing the same project folder to different repos (GitHub and GitLab) and ended up renaming it into a bunch of different names.

Now how do I remove remotes with name like 'upstream' and 'origin' from my list generated when I use git branch -a?

WHAT A MESS OF A LIST:

Answer 1

In general, to add, update, or remove any given remote, you use the git remote command. The default action for git remote is to list the current set of remotes, so:

git remote

should list:

GitHub
GitLab
origin
upstream

given the set of remote-tracking names. To remove all but, say, origin, you could use:

git remote remove GitHub
git remote remove GitLab
git remote remove upstream

Note that git remote remove can only remove one remote at a time, so if you have a long list of remotes to remove, you might use a shell loop:

for i in GitHub GitLab upstream; do git remote remove $i; done

(assuming you are using sh or bash or anything compatible with those).

Note that git remote remove also removes the corresponding remote-tracking names. (Git calls these remote-tracking branch names, but I find the word branch here to be more confusing than helpful, so I recommend deleting it from the phrase.)