diff --git a/options.go b/options.go
index 6137ae73f..3bd687650 100644
--- a/options.go
+++ b/options.go
@@ -91,6 +91,8 @@ func (o *CloneOptions) Validate() error {
 type PullOptions struct {
 	// Name of the remote to be pulled. If empty, uses the default.
 	RemoteName string
+	// RemoteURL overrides the remote repo address with a custom URL
+	RemoteURL string
 	// Remote branch to clone. If empty, uses HEAD.
 	ReferenceName plumbing.ReferenceName
 	// Fetch only ReferenceName if true.
@@ -147,7 +149,9 @@ const (
 type FetchOptions struct {
 	// Name of the remote to fetch from. Defaults to origin.
 	RemoteName string
-	RefSpecs   []config.RefSpec
+	// RemoteURL overrides the remote repo address with a custom URL
+	RemoteURL string
+	RefSpecs  []config.RefSpec
 	// Depth limit fetching to the specified number of commits from the tip of
 	// each remote branch history.
 	Depth int
@@ -192,6 +196,8 @@ func (o *FetchOptions) Validate() error {
 type PushOptions struct {
 	// RemoteName is the name of the remote to be pushed to.
 	RemoteName string
+	// RemoteURL overrides the remote repo address with a custom URL
+	RemoteURL string
 	// RefSpecs specify what destination ref to update with what source
 	// object. A refspec with empty src can be used to delete a reference.
 	RefSpecs []config.RefSpec
diff --git a/remote.go b/remote.go
index 5a5e3f3a6..9f2995d4f 100644
--- a/remote.go
+++ b/remote.go
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ import (
 
 	"github.com/go-git/go-billy/v5/osfs"
 	"github.com/go-git/go-git/v5/config"
+	"github.com/go-git/go-git/v5/internal/url"
 	"github.com/go-git/go-git/v5/plumbing"
 	"github.com/go-git/go-git/v5/plumbing/cache"
 	"github.com/go-git/go-git/v5/plumbing/format/packfile"
@@ -104,7 +105,11 @@ func (r *Remote) PushContext(ctx context.Context, o *PushOptions) (err error) {
 		return fmt.Errorf("remote names don't match: %s != %s", o.RemoteName, r.c.Name)
 	}
 
-	s, err := newSendPackSession(r.c.URLs[0], o.Auth, o.InsecureSkipTLS, o.CABundle)
+	if o.RemoteURL == "" {
+		o.RemoteURL = r.c.URLs[0]
+	}
+
+	s, err := newSendPackSession(o.RemoteURL, o.Auth, o.InsecureSkipTLS, o.CABundle)
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
@@ -184,12 +189,12 @@ func (r *Remote) PushContext(ctx context.Context, o *PushOptions) (err error) {
 	var hashesToPush []plumbing.Hash
 	// Avoid the expensive revlist operation if we're only doing deletes.
 	if !allDelete {
-		if r.c.IsFirstURLLocal() {
+		if url.IsLocalEndpoint(o.RemoteURL) {
 			// If we're are pushing to a local repo, it might be much
 			// faster to use a local storage layer to get the commits
 			// to ignore, when calculating the object revlist.
 			localStorer := filesystem.NewStorage(
-				osfs.New(r.c.URLs[0]), cache.NewObjectLRUDefault())
+				osfs.New(o.RemoteURL), cache.NewObjectLRUDefault())
 			hashesToPush, err = revlist.ObjectsWithStorageForIgnores(
 				r.s, localStorer, objects, haves)
 		} else {
@@ -392,7 +397,11 @@ func (r *Remote) fetch(ctx context.Context, o *FetchOptions) (sto storer.Referen
 		o.RefSpecs = r.c.Fetch
 	}
 
-	s, err := newUploadPackSession(r.c.URLs[0], o.Auth, o.InsecureSkipTLS, o.CABundle)
+	if o.RemoteURL == "" {
+		o.RemoteURL = r.c.URLs[0]
+	}
+
+	s, err := newUploadPackSession(o.RemoteURL, o.Auth, o.InsecureSkipTLS, o.CABundle)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
diff --git a/remote_test.go b/remote_test.go
index 66ca6b3f1..0283e6464 100644
--- a/remote_test.go
+++ b/remote_test.go
@@ -46,6 +46,12 @@ func (s *RemoteSuite) TestFetchInvalidSchemaEndpoint(c *C) {
 	c.Assert(err, ErrorMatches, ".*unsupported scheme.*")
 }
 
+func (s *RemoteSuite) TestFetchOverriddenEndpoint(c *C) {
+	r := NewRemote(nil, &config.RemoteConfig{Name: "foo", URLs: []string{"http://perfectly-valid-url.example.com"}})
+	err := r.Fetch(&FetchOptions{RemoteURL: "http://\\"})
+	c.Assert(err, ErrorMatches, ".*invalid character.*")
+}
+
 func (s *RemoteSuite) TestFetchInvalidFetchOptions(c *C) {
 	r := NewRemote(nil, &config.RemoteConfig{Name: "foo", URLs: []string{"qux://foo"}})
 	invalid := config.RefSpec("^*$ñ")
@@ -963,6 +969,12 @@ func (s *RemoteSuite) TestPushNonExistentEndpoint(c *C) {
 	c.Assert(err, NotNil)
 }
 
+func (s *RemoteSuite) TestPushOverriddenEndpoint(c *C) {
+	r := NewRemote(nil, &config.RemoteConfig{Name: "origin", URLs: []string{"http://perfectly-valid-url.example.com"}})
+	err := r.Push(&PushOptions{RemoteURL: "http://\\"})
+	c.Assert(err, ErrorMatches, ".*invalid character.*")
+}
+
 func (s *RemoteSuite) TestPushInvalidSchemaEndpoint(c *C) {
 	r := NewRemote(nil, &config.RemoteConfig{Name: "origin", URLs: []string{"qux://foo"}})
 	err := r.Push(&PushOptions{})
diff --git a/worktree.go b/worktree.go
index f23d9f170..362d10e65 100644
--- a/worktree.go
+++ b/worktree.go
@@ -73,6 +73,7 @@ func (w *Worktree) PullContext(ctx context.Context, o *PullOptions) error {
 
 	fetchHead, err := remote.fetch(ctx, &FetchOptions{
 		RemoteName:      o.RemoteName,
+		RemoteURL:       o.RemoteURL,
 		Depth:           o.Depth,
 		Auth:            o.Auth,
 		Progress:        o.Progress,