Pushing everything

> On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Maaartin <grajcar1@seznam.cz> wrote:
>> I'd like to push all my branches and tags to the server, but for whatever reason
>> "--all" ignores tags and is incompatible with "--tags". I could imagine there's
>> a reason I'm not experienced enough to see?
>
> You can spell the refs explicitly, like this:
>
>   $ git push refs/heads/* refs/tags/*

> 
> Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89 <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Maaartin <grajcar1 <at> seznam.cz> wrote:
> >> I'd like to push all my branches and tags to the server, but for whatever 

> >> a reason I'm not experienced enough to see?
> >
> > You can spell the refs explicitly, like this:
> >
> >   $ git push refs/heads/* refs/tags/*
> 
> The first argument needs to be a reference to a repository, so insert an
> origin here.

> Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org> writes:
>>
>> Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89 <at> gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Maaartin <grajcar1 <at> seznam.cz> wrote:
>>>> I'd like to push all my branches and tags to the server, but for whatever 
> reason
>>>> "--all" ignores tags and is incompatible with "--tags". I could imagine 
> there's
>>>> a reason I'm not experienced enough to see?
>>>
>>> You can spell the refs explicitly, like this:
>>>
>>>   $ git push refs/heads/* refs/tags/*
>>
>> The first argument needs to be a reference to a repository, so insert an
>> origin here.
> 
> Nice, that works. It answers only a part of my questions, but maybe I can 
> complete it. I want to use a repo as both a private backup (which everybody may 
> read but nobody should) and a shared base. So maybe something like
> 
> git push origin +refs/heads/*:refs/heads/maaartin-* +refs/tags/*:refs/tags/
> maaartin-* :
> 
> would do both the backup (where everything gets prefixed by my name) and normal 
> pushing of tracking branches. Could it work? Should I try it out or can it be 
> destructive?

> I'd like to push all my branches and tags to the server, but for whatever reason 
> "--all" ignores tags and is incompatible with "--tags". I could imagine there's 
> a reason I'm not experienced enough to see?
> 
> It seems to me that "--mirror" is quite unusable, since it force-overwrites the 
> remote repo and even deletes refs not locally present. Obviously, a mirror can't 
> be shared, and it doesn't seem to me to be the ideal backup solution for a 
> single person.
> 
> However, even if "git push -all -tags"  worked, I'm not sure it's a good idea 
> for project with more collaborators. There may be conflicts or other problems 
> and quite often the pushing occurs just before leaving so it's no good time to 
> start resolving conflicts. Can a shared repo be used as a sort of backup as 
> well? I'd like a possibility to backup all my work there anytime without needing 
> to care about anything. This could work by creating sort of private refs in case 
> of any problems, or whatever. Is there something like this, or am I thinking 
> astray? I'd suppose, something like this could be very useful for a company 
> where it'd provide a simple backup solution for everybody.