How to make a GitHub mirror to Bitbucket?

Question

I have a repo that I've cloned from GitHub and want to have a mirror of this repo on BitBucket. Is there is any way how to do it? Something like having two origin in the repo as I think.

Answer 1

You could simply add a second remote:

git remote add bitbucket /url/to/am/empty/bitbucket/repo

and push everything to bitbucket:

git push --mirror bitbucket

You can actually pull from or push to multiple remotes from your local repo.

As noted below in Rahulmohan Kolakandy's answer, if you are talking about an on-premise BitBucket server (as opposed to bitbucket.org), then you can take advantage of BitBucket Server Smart Mirroring.

Answer 2

The method explained here is better https://stackoverflow.com/a/12795747/988941

git remote set-url origin --add https://bitbucket.org/YOU/YOUR_REPO.git

Recent version of git handle multiple URLs in the same origin ;)

Answer 3

you no longer have to create these mirror links. Bitbucket has come up with this concept of smart mirror which does a real time sync to your mirror server.

More read here https://confluence.atlassian.com/bitbucketserver/smart-mirroring-776640046.html

Hope this helps!

Answer 4

You can also check the following (copy pasted from links below) ;

From How to properly mirror a git repository, you can use

git clone --mirror git@example.com/upstream-repository.git

cd upstream-repository.git

git push --mirror git@example.com/new-location.git

Or you can follow Duplicating a repository;

Open Terminal and create a bare clone of the repository.

git clone --bare https://github.com/exampleuser/old-repository.git

Mirror-push to the new repository.

cd old-repository.git
git push --mirror https://github.com/exampleuser/new-repository.git

Remove the temporary local repository you created in step 1.

cd ..
rm -rf old-repository.git