Re: Renaming a repo

From: Tomas Carnecky <tom@dbservice.com>
Date: Apr 19, 2011, 18:13 UTC
Message-ID: <4DADD0C4.4010106@dbservice.com>
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTiknSbWrskhGLWUBEq1=9KV4hC3ttA@mail.gmail.com>

On 4/19/11 8:02 PM, Hilco Wijbenga wrote:

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> Hi all,
>
> I have a hosted Git repo. As such I don't have the ability to touch
> the bare repo itself (should that be relevant). I would like to rename
> it though. I'd like to know if my approach below is valid.
>
> 1. The current repo is 'abc.git'
> 2. git clone abc.git

git clone --mirror abc.git

> 3. Create new hosted repo 'xyz.git'

cd abc; git push --mirror xyz.git

then you are done.

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> 4. git clone xyz.git
> 5. Copy abc/{.git,*} into xyz/
> 6. Replace all occurrences of 'abc.git' with 'xyz.git':
> 6.a. .git/logs/HEAD:00...00 41..53 Hilco Wijbenga<...>  1299100781
> -0800      clone: from git@...:abc.git

You can ignore the reflog.

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> 6.b. .git/logs/refs/heads/master:00...00 41...53 Hilco Wijbenga<...>
> 1299100781 -0800 clone: from git@...:abc.git
> 6.c. .git/config:  url = git@...:abc.git
> 6.d. .git/FETCH_HEAD:41...53              branch 'master' of ...:abc
> 7. git push origin master

FETCH_HEAD is also mostly irrelevant, as next time you fetch it'll be overwritten.

> There are no errors or warnings and a subsequent git clone and git log
> also seem to work. Is the repo in a consistent state or will I
> experience problems in the future?

No idea. But what you did seems much more complicated than necessary.

tom