How to migrate GIT repository from one server to a new one

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I have a server that I m taking down   The only thing I have left to migrate is my repository   This server is listed as the origin  master  for one of my projects   What is the proper way to move the repository to keep the history

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If you want to migrate a   git repository from one server to a new one you can do it like this   git clone OLD REPOSITORY PATH cd OLD REPOSITORY DIR git remote add NEW REPOSITORY ALIAS  NEW REPOSITORY PATH  check out all remote branches  for remote in  git branch -r   grep -v master    do git checkout --track  remote   done git push --mirror NEW REPOSITORY PATH git push NEW REPOSITORY ALIAS --tags   All remote branches and tags from the old repository will be copied to the new repository   Running this command alone   git push NEW REPOSITORY ALIAS   would only copy a master branch  only tracking branches  to the new repository

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Take a look at this recipe on GitHub   https   help github com articles importing-an-external-git-repository  I tried a number of methods before discovering git push --mirror   Worked like a charm

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Updated to use git push --mirror origin instead of git push -f origin as suggested in the comments   This worked for me flawlessly  git clone --mirror  lt URL to my OLD repo location gt  cd  lt New directory where your OLD repo was cloned gt  git remote set-url origin  lt URL to my NEW repo location gt  git push --mirror origin  I have to mention though that this creates a mirror of your current repo and then pushes that to the new location  Therefore  this can take some time for large repos or slow connections

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If you want to migrate all branches and tags you should use the following commands   git clone --mirror  oldUrl    to clone the old repo with all branches  cd the repo git remote add remoteName newRepoUrl   to setup a new remote  git push -f --tags remoteName refs heads   refs heads     to push all refs under refs heads  which is probably what you want

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This is sort of done in parts in some of the other answers   git clone --mirror git oldserver oldproject git cd oldproject git git remote add new git newserver newproject git git push --mirror new

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This is a variation on this answer  currently suggested by gitlab to  migrate  a git repository from one server to another    Let us assume that your old project is called existing repo  stored in a existing repo folder  Create a repo on your new server  We will assume that  the url of that new project is git newserver newproject git Open a command-line interface  and enter the following   cd existing repo git remote rename origin old-origin git remote add origin git newserver newproject git git push -u origin --all git push -u origin --tags    The benefits of this approach is that you do not delete the branch that corresponds to your old server

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To add the new repo location    git remote add new repo name new repo url   Then push the content to the new location  git push new repo name master   Finally remove the old one  git remote rm origin   After that you can do what bdonlan said and edit the git config file to change the new repo name to origin  If you don t remove the origin  original remote repository   you can simply just push changes to the new repo with   git push new repo name master

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Please follow the steps    git remote add new-origin  git push --all new-origin git push --tags new-origin git remote rm origin git remote rename new-origin origin

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You can use the following command     git remote set-url --push origin new repo url   Example from http   gitref org remotes     git remote -v github  git github com schacon hw git  fetch  github  git github com schacon hw git  push  origin  git   github com github git-reference git  fetch  origin  git   github com github git-reference git  push    git remote set-url --push origin git   github com pjhyett hw git   git remote -v github  git github com schacon hw git  fetch  github  git github com schacon hw git  push  origin  git   github com github git-reference git  fetch  origin  git   github com pjhyett hw git  push

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Should be as simple as   git remote set-url origin git   new url here   This way you keep the name origin for your new repo - then push to the new repo the old one as detailed in the other answers  Supposing you work alone and you have a local repo you want to mirror with all your cruft in it  you might as well  from inside your local repo   git push origin --mirror   origin points to your new repo   but see Is  quot git push --mirror quot  sufficient for backing up my repository   in all don t use --mirror but once

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You can use git-copy to duplicate the repo with all histories   git copy http   a com old git http   a com new git

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follow these instructions If you want to keep all the commits and branches from old to new repo  git clone --bare  lt old-repo-url gt  cd  lt old-repo-directory gt  git push --mirror  lt new-repo-url gt

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I followed the instructions on BitBucket to move a repo with all its branches there  Here come the steps with explanations following the   character   cd path to local repo git remote remove origin   to get rid of the old setting  this was not in the BitBucket instructions git remote add origin ssh   git bitbucket org  lt username gt   lt newrepo gt    modify URL as needed git push -u origin --all   pushes  ALL  branches in one go git push -u origin --tags   pushes  ALL  tags in one go   Worked nicely for me

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If you want to move from one origin to another and also keep a backup of your current origin on your local machine you could use these steps    First locally go to the  git folder you want to move over Create the new repository online  This step creates a repository where we can push code to   Now in the folder do  git remote get-url origin   The above command gives the current remote origin url  useful to set the origin back to in the last step  git remote set-url origin git github newlocation folder newrepo git   The above command sets the remote origin to the new location  git push --set-upstream origin develop   The above command pushes the current active local branch to remote with branchname develop  Of course it preserves all history as with git all history is also pushed   git remote set-url origin  lt original old origin gt    The above command sets back the remote origin to your current origin  you want this because you are in your existing folder and you probably do not want to mix up your current local folder name with the new folder you are going to create for cloning the repo you just pushed to   Hope this helps

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I m just reposting what others have said  in a simple to follow list of instructions    Move the repository  Simply login to the new server  cd to the parent directory where you now want to hold the repository  and use rsync to copy from the old server   new server gt  rsync -a -v -e ssh user old server com path to repository git    Make clients point to the new repository  Now on each client using the repository  just remove the pointer to the old origin  and add one to the new one   client gt  git remote rm origin client gt  git remote add origin user new server com path to repository git

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Copy it over  It s really that simple      On the client side  just edit  git config in the client s local repo to point your remotes to the new URL as necessary

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