Moving a git repository

Question

This question may be dumb, but I\'ve been wondering it for a while. It\'s about git repositories, but I assume it\'s the same for local repositories for other DVCS\'.

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Answer 1

Show current remote (this is optional step of course):

$ git remote show origin
* remote origin
URL: git@oldserver:project.git
Remote branch(es) merged with 'git pull' while on branch master
master
Tracked remote branches
master

What we need to do is to remove current origin and add the new one:

$ git remote rm origin
$ git remote add origin git@newserver:project.git
$ git remote show origin
* remote origin
URL: git@newserver:project.git
Remote branch(es) merged with 'git pull' while on branch master
master
error: refs/remotes/origin/HEAD points nowhere!
New remote branches (next fetch will store in remotes/origin)
master

Don’t worry about the error shown by the last command. The first pull from the origin will fix it:

$ git pull
From git@newserver:project.git
* [new branch]      master     -> origin/master
Already up-to-date.
$ git remote show origin
* remote origin
URL: git@newserver:project.git
Remote branch(es) merged with 'git pull' while on branch master
master
Tracked remote branches
master

I’m still fresh with Git so maybe thre’s a better way to do it but this worked for me.