Remote rejected (shallow update not allowed) after changing Git remote URL

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As it seems you have used git clone --depth <number> to clone your local version. This results in a shallow clone. One limitation of such a clone is that you can’t push from it into a new repository.

You now have two options:

  1. if you don’t care about your missing history, take a look at this question
  2. if you want to keep your full history, then continue reading:

So, you want to keep your history, eh? This means that you have to unshallow your repository. If you already removed or replaced your old remote then you’ll need to add it again:

git remote add old <path-to-old-remote>

After that we use git fetch to fetch the remaining history from the old remote (as suggested in this answer).

git fetch --unshallow old

And now you should be able to push into your new remote repository.

Note: After unshallowing your clone you can remove the old remote.

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