Completely move GIT from one provider to another.
Moving GIT repo around
I googled around a lot to see how to move git repository from one remote host to another.
In cloning, my goal is to
- Make sure that all branches on source remote is cloned
- Make sure that all tags on source remote is cloned
Then after cloning, my goal is to
- Push all branches to another remote host
- Push all tags to another remote host
The way to do this is simple. I've done this with over 20 of my repositories.
- Bitbucket -> Github
- Bitbucket -> another bitbucket
- Github -> Bitbucket
- Github -> another github
- Github -> Gitlab
- Bitbucket -> Gitlab
Let's get started
- Note:
TEMP_REPO_FOLDERNAME
is just a folder name. Any name is ok.SOURCE_REMOTE_URL
is a source (original) git repository url. It can be http or ssh.- example:
https://github.com/SaKKo/SKTipAlertView.git
NEW_REMOTE_URL
is where you want to move your repository to. (must be blank repo).- example:
https://sakko@bitbucket.org/sakko/SKTipAlertView.git
Let's begin (replace TEMP_REPO_FOLDERNAME
SOURCE_REMOTE_URL
NEW_REMOTE_URL
with what you want then just run the code).
mkdir TEMP_REPO_FOLDERNAME # create a new folder
cd TEMP_REPO_FOLDERNAME
git init --bare .git # create a bare repo
git remote add origin SOURCE_REMOTE_URL # add a remote
git fetch origin refs/heads/*:refs/heads/* # fetch heads
git fetch origin refs/tags/*:refs/tags/* # fetch tags
git init # reinit work tree
git checkout master # checkout a branch
git remote rm origin # remove remote repo
git remote add origin NEW_REMOTE_URL # new remote url
git push -u origin master # now push master
git push --all # now push all other branches
Done! Hope you find this useful :D