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Teifi
Asked: 2013-05-25 23:45:50 +0800 CST

migrate git repositories

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I have an old laptop IBM Z61t as my git server. I want to upgrade my laptop server to a desktop server(the laptop server will not use anymore).

how could I setup and migrate the git repositories to my desktop server without losing histories. It's quiet different from setting up a git server.

Thanks in advance.

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3 Answers

  1. If you don't want to setup a git server, simply do a bundle of your repo on your old laptop.

    cd  /repos/git/job.git
git bundle create /repos/git/job.bundle --all

    That will generate one file job.bundle, that you can copy (through any mean you want: USB key, ...) onto your other server.

    Once copied, you can clone from that bundle (which acts as a git repo):

    git clone --bare job.bundle  /repos/git/public.git
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  2. Best Answer

    You can simply copy the directory with the normal filesystem tools, or run a git clone on the new machine to copy, since you seem to already have the exiting machine set up as a server.

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  3. [for my own reference, just push to origin:git push origin master 囧 ]

    first: initialize new repository at desktop server

    mkdir /repos/git/job.git
GIT_DIR=/repos/git/job.git git init

    second: clone the repository

    git clone ssh://laptopserver.com/repos/git/job.git

    third: config and push to new repository

    cd /directory/job
git config -e

    change the url from laptopserver.com to desktopserver.com

    git push origin master
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