Heroku change github repository

Question

I have a fully working application with data persisted in the database but I need to change the github repository associated with it. So I have something like:

https://github.com/foo/bar

And I need to change to:

https://github.com/bar/foo

Without doing anything to the application hosted and without losing data. Is there any way to do this?

• Chris: Unless I'm missing something, Heroku doesn't know (or care) what your GitHub repository is called. You don't even need a GitHub repository to use Heroku. Don't you push to it from a local copy?
• Matheus Lima: I have a local folder called A, which is hosted at github as github.com/A, what I need to do is change heroku to read from my folder B, which is hosted at github as github.com/B
• Chris: Well, Heroku doesn't "read from" local folders. Nothing at Heroku will change until you push to it, or change settings. Do A and B share history?
• Matheus Lima: A and B are the same. I simply had to change the repository from a personal to a organisation.
• Chris: So just deploy your next version from B. Heroku doesn't know what machine or directory you pushed from.

Answer 1

If you're using Heroku's Github integration (where Heroku either automatically deploys a specific Github branch or you can choose a branch to deploy manually) you can disconnect your old repository and connect the new one. Navigate to Deploys tab, and click the Disconnect... button in App connected to Github section:

Disconnect button

Then connect your new repository as you did initially.

Note that if your repository was transferred to another account / organization you may need to grant Heroku permissions to access that. When you do so and reconnect the repository you may find two Heroku webhooks installed, under Settings / Webhooks on Github. One of those will be shown as failing - just remove the one that fails.