How to update GitHub Token

Joshua Wilfred
1 min readMay 11, 2023

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To update your personal access token in your cloned repository, you need to update the remote repository URL to include your new token. You can do this by following these steps:

1. Open your terminal and navigate to your cloned repository.

2. Check the current remote repository URL by running the following command:

git remote -v

This will show you the current URL for the remote repository.

3. Update the remote repository URL to include your new personal access token. You can do this by running the following command:

git remote set-url origin <new-remote-url>

Replace `<new-remote-url>` with the new URL for the remote repository that includes your new personal access token.

4. Verify that the remote repository URL has been updated by running the `git remote -v` command again.

5. Now you should be able to push your changes to the remote repository using your new personal access token.

Note: If you have cloned the repository using HTTPS, you will need to include your new personal access token in the URL as follows:

https://<username>:<token>@github.com/<user>/<repo>.git

Replace `<username>` with your GitHub username, `<token>` with your new personal access token, `<user>` with the repository owner’s username, and `<repo>` with the name of the repository.

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