How to mirror a git repository

Introduction

Sometimes you have the need to move a repository from one server or provider to another. This is what I´m going to do. Which is simple.

Instructions

On your terminal

1. First we create a bare clone of our origin repository.

git clone --bare https://gitoriginalprovider.com/pathto/old-repository.git

2. Create a repository in the destination server or provider and once done copy the URL.

3. Le'ts move to our cloned repository and push to the new destination.

cd old-repository.git
git push --mirror git@github.com:victoryoalli/new-repository.git

4. Finally let's delete the old-repository folder from our computer.

cd ..
rm -Rf old-repository

Conclusion

Now we have migrated or repository to a new provi er