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alexxjk
alexxjk

Reputation: 1701

What is a best strategy to clone Git repository

I'm apologizing if my question has been already answered, I wasn't able to find a best solution for my particular case.

We have a Git repository with a few branches that can't be merged into origin branch. And now we need to clone this repository with all branches so we can go a different way.

The repository in hosted on GitLab. I believe that a best approach would be to simply copy the repository and upload it again in our own space.

But unfortunately, due to our bureaucracy it's a time-taking process. Alternatively we can simply fork the repository and I wonder if it will give us some troubles in future?

Thank you!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 544

Answers (2)

Nicolas Pepinster
Nicolas Pepinster

Reputation: 6221

In Gitlab UI, you can create a new project by specifying a git repo url.

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This will import the content of the referenced repository. Be aware that the import will time out after 180 minutes (Gitlab advices the git clone/push combination describe by @dunajski for big repo.

Upvotes: 0

dunajski
dunajski

Reputation: 389

In your specified situation I'll do.

  1. Clone repo git clone [url] to new destination.
  2. Then check remotes git remotes -v.
  3. Set remote url to new destination git remote set-url {remote_name} url.
  4. Try to push something by git push remote_name branch_name

Upvotes: 3

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