Git push existing repo to a new and different remote repo server

Question

Say I have a repository on git fedorahosted org and I want to clone this into my account at github to have my own playground aside from the more  official  repo on fedorahosted  What would be the steps to initially copy that over  Within github there is this nice  fork  button  but I can t use this for obvious reasons   And how would I track changes in the fedorahosted repo into the github one

User · Answer

There is a deleted answer on this question that had a useful link: https://help.github.com/articles/duplicating-a-repository

The gist is

0. create the new empty repository (say, on github)
1. make a bare clone of the repository in some temporary location
2. change to the temporary location
3. perform a mirror-push to the new repository
4. change to another location and delete the temporary location

OP's example:

On your local machine

$ cd $HOME
$ git clone --bare https://git.fedorahosted.org/the/path/to/my_repo.git
$ cd my_repo.git
$ git push --mirror https://github.com/my_username/my_repo.git
$ cd ..
$ rm -rf my_repo.git

User · Answer

Here is a manual way to do git remote set-url origin  new repo URL     Clone the repository  git clone  lt old remote gt  Create a GitHub repository Open  lt repository gt   git config     git config -e    core      repositoryformatversion   0     filemode   false     bare   false     logallrefupdates   true     symlinks   false     ignorecase   true  remote  origin       url    lt old remote gt      fetch    refs heads   refs remotes origin    branch  master       remote   origin     merge   refs heads master   and change the remote  the url option    remote  origin       url    lt new remote gt      fetch    refs heads   refs remotes origin    Push the repository to GitHub  git push   You can also use both multiple remotes

User · Answer

Create a new repo at github  Clone the repo from fedorahosted to your local machine  git remote rename origin upstream git remote add origin URL TO GITHUB REPO git push origin master   Now you can work with it just like any other github repo  To pull in patches from upstream  simply run git pull upstream master  amp  amp  git push origin master

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Try this How to move a full Git repository   Create a local repository in the temp-dir directory using   git clone  temp-dir Go into the temp-dir directory  To see a list of the different branches in ORI do   git branch -a  Checkout all the branches that you want to copy from ORI to NEW using   git checkout branch-name  Now fetch all the tags from ORI using   git fetch --tags  Before doing the next step make sure to check your local tags and branches using the following commands   git tag   git branch -a  Now clear the link to the ORI repository with the following command   git remote rm origin  Now link your local repository to your newly created NEW repository using the following command   git remote add origin  lt url to NEW repo gt   Now push all your branches and tags with these commands   git push origin --all   git push --tags  You now have a full copy from your ORI repo

User · Answer

To push your existing repo into different  you need to    Clone the original repo first   git clone https   git fedorahosted org cgit rhq rhq git  Push the cloned sources to your new repository   cd rhq git push https   github com user example master master    You may change master master into source destination branch     If you want to push specific commit  branch   then do    On the original repo  create and checkout a new branch   git checkout -b new branch  Choose and reset to the point which you want to start with   git log   Find the interesting hash git reset 4b62bdc9087bf33cc01d0462bf16bbf396369c81 --hard   Alternatively select the commit by git cherry-pick to append into existing HEAD  Then push to your new repo   git push https   github com user example new branch master   If you re rebasing  use -f for force push  not recommended   Run git reflog to see history of changes

User · Answer

I have had the same problem   In my case  since I have the original repository in my local machine  I have made a copy in a new folder without any hidden file   git   gitignore    Finally I have added the  gitignore file to the new created folder   Then I have created and added the new repository from the local path  in my case using GitHub Desktop

User · Answer

I found a solution using set-url which is concise and fairly easy to understand    create a new repo at Github cd into the existing repository on your local machine  if you haven t cloned it yet  then do this first  git remote set-url origin https   github com user example git git push -u origin master

User · Answer

Simply point the new repo by changing the GIT repo URL with this command   git remote set-url origin  new repo URL    Example  git remote set-url origin git bitbucket org Batman batmanRepoName git  Now  pushing and pulling are linked to the new REPO   Then push normally like so   git push -u origin master

User · Answer

If you have Existing Git repository   cd existing repo git remote rename origin old-origin git remote add origin https   gitlab com newproject git push -u origin --all git push -u origin --tags

User · Answer

Do you really want to simply push your local repository  with its local branches  etc   to the new remote or do you really want to mirror the old remote  with all its branches  tags  etc  on the new remote   If the latter here s a great blog on How to properly mirror a git repository   I strongly encourage you to read the blog for some very important details  but the short version is this   In a new directory run these commands   git clone --mirror git example com upstream-repository git cd upstream-repository git git push --mirror git example com new-location git

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