How to migrate a hosted git repository to a new host?

Question

I have a git repository hosted in TFS (e.g. https://tfsfoo.com/_git ) and I need to move it to another TFS host (e.g. https://tfsbar.com/_git )

My solution is to do the following (modified as suggested below using -mirror):

• git clone https://tfsfoo.com/_git/proj --mirror
• Scroll through the branches (git branch -r) and then git branch - open each of them (as in this post )
• Note that I already clicked on a new repo (without branches), so -mirror was not an option.
• git pull
• git remote set-url origin https://tfsbar.com/_git/proj
• git push -all -follow-tags

Now - I know that I can just try this to see if it works (and I will probably wait for an answer), but given that there are several ways to do almost everything in git, I wonder if there is a better way - or what even more important - if something is wrong with this approach (I'm relatively new to git).

Answer 1

Since you have network access for the second server, then yes, clicking is the easiest way.

To create local branches for all branches of remote tracking, you can use a single-line box, which I usually use on git to pull all branches from a remote repository . "

An alternative is git clone --mirror first repo and push it to the second server as in this answer .

Answer 2

You can achieve this with git-copy .

 git copy https://tfsfoo.com/_git https://tfsbar.com/_git