Moving Git repository content to another repository preserving history

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I am trying to move only the contents of one repository  repo1  to another existing repository  repo2  using the following commands   git clone repo1 git clone repo2 cd repo1 git remote rm origin git remote add repo1 git push   But it s not working  I reviewed a similar post  but I only found one moving the folder  not the contents

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There are a lot of complicated answers  here  however  if you are not concerned with branch preservation  all you need to do is reset the remote origin  set the upstream  and push    This worked to preserve all the commit history for me    cd  lt location of local repo  gt  git remote set-url origin  lt url gt  git push -u origin master

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I think the commands you are looking for are   cd repo2 git checkout master git remote add r1remote   url-of-repo1   git fetch r1remote git merge r1remote master --allow-unrelated-histories git remote rm r1remote   After that repo2 master will contain everything from repo2 master and repo1 master  and will also have the history of both of them

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As per  Dan-Cohn answer Mirror-push is your friend here  This is my go to for migrating repos     Mirroring a repository  1 Open Git Bash   2 Create a bare clone of the repository     git clone --bare https   github com exampleuser old-repository git   3 Mirror-push to the new repository     cd old-repository git   git push --mirror https   github com exampleuser new-repository git   4 Remove the temporary local repository you created in step 1     cd      rm -rf old-repository git   Reference and Credit  https   help github com en articles duplicating-a-repository

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Perfectly described here https   www smashingmagazine com 2014 05 moving-git-repository-new-server   First  we have to fetch all of the remote branches and tags from the existing repository to our local index       git fetch origin   We can check for any missing branches that we need to create a local copy of       git branch -a   Let   s use the SSH-cloned URL of our new repository to create a new remote in our existing local repository   git remote add new-origin git github com manakor manascope git   Now we are ready to push all local branches and tags to the new remote named new-origin   git push --all new-origin  git push --tags new-origin   Let   s make new-origin the default remote       git remote rm origin   Rename new-origin to just origin  so that it becomes the default remote    git remote rename new-origin origin

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Simplest approach if the code is already tracked by Git then set new repository as your  origin  to push to   cd existing-project git remote set-url origin https   clone-url git git push -u origin --all git push origin --tags

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If you re looking to preserve the existing branches and commit history  here s one way that worked for me   git clone --mirror https   github com account repo git cloned-repo cd cloned-repo git push --mirror  URL of new  empty  repo     at this point only remote cloned-repo is correct  local has auto-generated repo structure with folders such as  branches  or  refs  cd    rm -rf cloned-repo git clone  URL of new  empty  repo    only now will you see the expected user-generated contents in local cloned-repo folder    note  all non-master branches are avaialable  but git branch will not show them until you git checkout each of them   to automatically checkout all remote branches use this loop  for b in  git branch -r   grep -v --  - gt     do git branch --track   b  origin    b  done   Now  suppose you want to keep the source and destination repos in sync for a period of time  For example  there s still activity within the current remote repo that you want to bring over to the new replacement repo   git clone -o old https   github com account repo git my-repo cd my-repo git remote add new  URL of new repo    To pull down the latest updates  assuming you have no local changes    git checkout  branch es  of interest  git pull old git push --all new   NB  I have yet to use submodules  so I don t know what additional steps might be required if you have them

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I used the below method to migrate my GIT Stash to GitLab by maintaining all branches and commit history    Clone the old repository to local   git clone --bare  lt STASH-URL gt    Create an empty repository in GitLab   git push --mirror  lt GitLab-URL gt

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This worked to move my local repo  including history  to my remote github com repo   After creating the new empty repo at GitHub com I use the URL in step three below and it works great   git clone --mirror  lt url of old repo gt  cd  lt name of old repo gt  git remote add new-origin  lt url of new repo gt  git push new-origin --mirror   I found this at  https   gist github com niksumeiko 8972566

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It looks like you re close  Assuming that it s not just a typo in your submission  step 3 should be cd repo2 instead of repo1  And step 6 should be git pull not push  Reworked list   1  git clone repo1 2  git clone repo2 3  cd repo2 4  git remote rm origin 5  git remote add repo1 6  git pull 7  git remote rm repo1 8  git remote add newremote

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I am not very sure if what i did was right  but it worked anyways  I renamed repo2 folder present inside repo1  and committed the changes  In my case it was just one repo which i wanted to merge   so this approach worked  Later on  some path changes were done

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