How do I synchronise two remote Git repositories?

Question

I have two repository urls, and I want to synchronise them such that they both contain the same thing. In Mercurial, what I\'m trying to do would be:

hg pull         


        

Answer 1

You might not have seen that the fetch did in fact work when you used git clone --mirror --bare, because by default git does not list it's remote branches. You can list them with git branch -a.

I don't quite have the syntax worked out for unnamed remotes, but you could automatically add remotes based on some scheme from the url... in any case, it'll probably work best if you choose some unique and consistent name for each repo, so you can know what changes came from where

However, you could try something like this:

git clone --bare --mirror --origin thing1 {repo1} repo.git
cd repo.git
git fetch thing2 --mirror
git push thing1 --mirror
git push thing2 --mirror

After this was done, thing1 would have all of thing2's branches available to merge at any time, as remote branches. You can list the remote branches with git branch -a.

On github or bitbucket, you will not be able to see these remote branches via the web interfaces, however you can see them if you clone with --mirror, so they do exist.