Move repository without changing URL

Question

My company has a Stash server whose project structure has grown, um, "organically."  We would like to reorganize our projects, but the single problem blocking us is that each project's clone URL includes the project code.

Is there a way to move a repository from one project to another without changing its clone URL?  If not, is there a way to reorganize the project browsing pages in Stash without affecting the clone URLs?  Failing both of those, can a remnant of the project be left behind so that the old URLs will redirect to the new URLs somehow?

If *none* of that's possible, it would be great to configure Stash/Bitbucket to not include the project code as part of the URL from the very beginning, so that this issue could be avoided for future repos.

We're using Stash v3.10.0, installed locally on our servers.

Johannes Kilian_pi36cl · Answer

Persistent URLs are a long outstanding feature-request:

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/BSERV-3751

You might vote for this as well

TimP · Answer

Hi Ken,

There's an experimental plugin available that will flush a message to existing users when they try to clone from the old repository location. You'll have to build it from source, but you might find it useful.

cheers,

Tim

Tim Crall1 · Answer

>Is there a way to move a repository from one project to another without changing its clone URL?

No

>If not, is there a way to reorganize the project browsing pages in Stash without affecting the clone URLs?

No

>Failing both of those, can a remnant of the project be left behind so that the old URLs will redirect to the new URLs somehow?

You could fork the repo and enable fork syncing, but that seems messy.

The better thing to do is to just reorganize the repos and then change their local remote URLs.

You can do this with the command

git remote set-url origin <new-url>