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Jack Rogers
Jack Rogers

Reputation: 695

Pushing cloned TFS repo to a private repo with history

I cloned a TFS repo using git-tfs clone <tfs-url> command to my local machine amd when its done, I opened the folder and do a git log and I could see all the beautiful history.

Now, when I create a new private repo and clone that repo to my local then copy paste all the objects from TFS (that i just cloned to my local) into the new repo and git push it, I dont see the beautiful history, only 1 history of me pushing it to the new repo. I need to have the old history from TFS repo intact. How do I do that?

Also, idk if it helps but when I opened the cloned TFS folder on my local machine and I do git remote -v, there is nothing no remote at all, its just empty, i thought git-tfs clone would add git remote automatically but it doesnt. Unlike git clone which automatically creates a remote connection called origin pointing back to the cloned repository as stated in here

Upvotes: 1

Views: 442

Answers (3)

Jack Rogers
Jack Rogers

Reputation: 695

nvm found the answer

git remote add <origin-url>

git push origin master

Upvotes: 1

Vito Liu
Vito Liu

Reputation: 8298

I need to have the old history from TFS repo intact.

For Git, just using the Import Repository feature, you can import a Git repository to your team project from other project's git repo. The newly imported repo will keep all commit history. For details, please refer to this document.

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The import repo feature was introduced in TFS 2017 Update 1. If you are using TFS 2017 RTM or earlier, you can use the following steps to manually import a repo into TFS.

git clone --bare {clone repo url}
cd repo name.git
git push --mirror {target repo url}

If you do not know the path, we can call the cmd dir to load the file list and then find the path.

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Upvotes: 0

Philippe
Philippe

Reputation: 31147

Now, when I create a new private repo and clone that repo to my local then copy paste all the objects from TFS (that i just cloned to my local) into the new repo and git push it, I dont see the beautiful history, only 1 history of me pushing it to the new repo. I need to have the old history from TFS repo intact. How do I do that?

What you did is not pushing your history, but just committing the tip of your source code.

See what I have written in the git-tfs documentation to add a remote toward your newly created git repository and push the history :

https://github.com/git-tfs/git-tfs/blob/master/doc/usecases/migrate_tfs_to_git.md#add-a-remote-toward-git-central-repository

Also, idk if it helps but when I opened the cloned TFS folder on my local machine and I do git remote -v, there is nothing no remote at all, its just empty, i thought git-tfs clone would add git remote automatically but it doesnt.

That's something that git-tfs can't do and makes no sense. Git-tfs does not know the newly created repository (and don't manage the TFVC link as a git remote to not confuse users).

Upvotes: 0

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