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Why did my branch not import?

Gibran Shah_u7rum0

Hello,

I just transferred a project from a Bonobo repository to BitBucket. (see topid: https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/41476794). The transfer seemed to work fine except it seems to have only transferred the main branch.

In SourceTree, which is still pointing to the Bonobo server, you can see the two branches in the following screen shot:

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I have the blue branch and the purple branch. I also drew an arrow to a commit on the blue branch in order to highlight an example of a commit that doesn't seem to have transferred over.

In my Bitbucket account, if I look at my commits, I don't see this particular commit (new build: 15.1.237):

commits on bitbucket.png

If I click on the Branches tab, I see this:

branches on bitbucket.png

So it doesn't seem like the blue branch got transferred over.

That actually might be OK because I'd much prefer to transfer it over into a completely separate repository, not a branch. Is that possible?

unsupported protocol.png

branches in SourceTree.png

SourceTree branches.png

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Rich Duncan

Hi Gibran - so in the local repo where you did the migration run a 'git branch -a' How many branches do you have? If the number is low, simply check them out and then push them to the 'target' remote you established. If you have a lot, (say over a dozen) there is a refspec that you can use that will push them all at once, except I have to look that up... smile

-Rich

Gibran Shah_u7rum0

Thanks Rich,

Before I do that, however, do you know if I can push the branch to a separate repository? That's really what we should have done at first as these two branches represent completely different versions of the same application (i.e. not different lines of development but different end products).

Rich Duncan

Sure - you just need to create another remote to an empty repo and push only the branch(es) you want. If you look up in the git manual, you can change the branch name along the way so for example push the xyzProduct branch to master in that repo

-Rich

Gibran Shah_u7rum0

Hi Rich,

Following the procedure you provide at my other post: https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/41476794 ... I skipped step 1 (git clone --mirror src-repo-spec) because the repository has already been clone to .../repos/Profiler.git (*hopefully* with the branch).

Step 2 (git remote add target target-spec) gave me a bit of trouble. It said: "fatal: remote target already exists."

Ok, so if it already exists, I'll move onto step 3 (git push --all target). <-- This is where pushing the branch comes in (if I understand correctly).

I found this site which explains how to push a branch: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5423517/how-do-i-push-a-local-git-branch-to-master-branch-in-the-remote ... in particular, the line that says:

git push <remote> <local branch name>:<remote branch to push into>

So I typed: git push target Profiler_Legacy:master (Profiler_Legacy is what the branch is called in SourceTree). It gave me the error:

src refspec Profiler_Legacy does not match any.

failed to push some refs to 'https://gibran_shah@bitbucket.org/acmriskalive/risk-alive-prodiler-2.git'

...which alarms me because I thought I changed the target to https://gibran_shah@bitbucket.org/acmriskalive/profiler-legacy.git

But anyway, I also tried: git push https://gibran_shah@bitbucket.org/acmriskalive/profiler-legacy.git Profiler_Legacy:master ... but it gave me the same error.

I understand you said the way to push branches is in the git manual but I didn't find any examples that show how to do it in my specific case.

Thanks for your help.

John van der Loo

Hi @Gibran Shah,

As of Bitbucket Server 4.9 you can also import repositories using the web interface with our new Repository Importer

Gibran Shah

Hi John,

Thanks for the response.

I'm not sure if I'm connected to the Bitbucket Server 4.9 when I log into my Atlassian account. Supposing that I am, though, I don't exactly get an "Import Repository" option in the left-hand panel. I can, however, view my repositories and click on the one I want. That takes me to the repository setup page where I can click on "I have an existing project" and then "try our importer".

However, when I get to the importer page, I get this error when I type in the source URL:

unsupported protocol.png

Notice that it's telling me that I have entered an invalid protocol (http://) even though one of the suggestions it gives me is exactly the same protocol.

Also, supposing I get this right, how do I specify a particular branch?

Thanks very much for your help.

John van der Loo

Hi Gibran,

I see now, you're using Bitbucket Cloud, which has a slightly different feature set than Bitbucket Server, which is why the importer is slightly different.

I just tried to import a repository myself which worked ok, but if I place a space before the URL, that's when I get the same error as you are getting. I've raised an issue at https://bitbucket.org/site/master/issues/13326/leading-and-trailing-spaces-should-be to track this.

For the moment, removing any leading or trailing whitespace from your git URL should allow you to import.

Edit: With regards to how to select a branch, there is no need as the importer will import all branches from the source repository.

Thanks!

Gibran Shah_u7rum0

Thanks for the reply John,

The warning about the invalid protocol stills shows up for me even without any whitespace surrounding the URL. (Not sure if this is preventing me from importing as I haven't tried yet).

I would actually like to select a specific branch from the source since I want to turn that branch into the main branch (with no other branches) in the target repository. Is that possible?

Thanks

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