Importing an existing repository into Stash

Martin Ehrnhoef

Hi,

I have my brand new Stash server installed, and now I am trying to migrate my Git repositories (which are currently hosted on some remote site). I already created a local copy using "git clone --mirror"(which includes all branches).

My question is:

What is the preferred way to import such a bare repository - including all branches and tags - to Stash?

My ideas so far:

- use a local script that pushes all branches and tags - one by one - to the Stash server

- got to the Stash "data/repositories" directory and execute a "git clone --mirror" there

Thanks!

Martin

Semyon Vadishev

One has to be very careful using

git clone --mirror

This command sets force update for all the references of remote origin:

[remote "origin"]
	url = ...
	fetch = +refs/*:refs/*
	mirror = true

As result one may accidentaly rewrite the whole history of mirrored repository just by running:

git fetch origin

That's why one should remove the remote right after the clone is completed:

git remote rm origin

So the whole sequence should be as follows:

git clone --mirror $ORIGINAL_URL
git remote rm origin
git remote add stash $STASH_URL
git push --all stash
git push --tags stash

Another important note: if you're importing Subversion repository into Stash with git-svn, I'd highly recommend you to use SVN Importer Plugin instead, here are the reasons:

1. It doesn't use git-svn, git-svn is slow and terrible;
2. It uses SubGit instead, SubGit is fast and awesome;
3. SVN Importer Plugin uses Stash users to map SVN authors into Git committers;
4. SVN Importer Plugin properly handles branches, tags, merge-tracking information, EOLs, MIME types, etc;

Hope that helps.