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Aerodynamika
Aerodynamika

Reputation: 8423

How to create a new Git repo instead of an old one and keep the commits history?

Suppose I have a Git repo and it has a name — old_repo — and a remote origin old_remote.

Now, I want to create a new repo with a name — new_repo – and I want to change its remote origin to the brand new new_remote.

I also want to make it possible to update the new_repo if there are any updates to the old_repo (but not the other way round), but I don't want the new_repo to be a fork of the old_repo.

What would be the best way to do that?

I'm thinking about this:


mkdir /path/to/new_repo
cd /path/to/new_repo
git --bare init

// the new_repo it's accessible via ssh://my_host/new_remote
// now I want the branch master to be accessible as the branch master in the new one

cd /path/to/old_repo
git push ssh://my_host/new_repo +master:master

cd /path/to/new_repo
git clone ssh://my_host/new_repo

However, in the case above, how would I be able to get updates from the old_repo into the new_repo if needed?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 161

Answers (1)

Alecto
Alecto

Reputation: 10750

You would set old_repo as an upstream, and then you could pull from it:

git remote add upstream /path/to/old/repo

Then, to get updates from the old repository, you can pull from upstream:

git pull upstream

Side note: Instead of doing all that stuff with cloning old repo, you could just copy it to a new location and then change the origin:

cp /path/to/old/repo /path/to/new/repo
cd /path/to/new/repo
git remote set origin <new remote location>
git remote add upstream <old remote location>

Then, whenever you need to fetch updates you can just run git pull upstream (or git fetch upstream if you want to inspect them before merging)

Upvotes: 2

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