Moving branches/tags from one git repository to another

Git_MoveBranchbetweenRepository.txt

A  Moving branches/tags from one git repository to another

1. Clone existing git repo (source repository)
git clone --mirror <source git url>

eg 
git clone --mirror git@github.com:source/source.git

2. 
got to <folder with name of repo>
cd <folder with name of repo>

3. Add remote repository ( destination repository )
git remote add new-origin <destination git url>

eg 
git clone --mirror git@github.com:destination/destination.git

4. Move all changes to destination repository
git push new-origin --mirror



B If you only want to move some branches 


1. git clone <source git repository url>

2. checkout all branches to be moved to new git.
   git checkout <branch>
   
3. verify branches to be moved using output of git branch command
   git branch    
   
4. add destination repository 
   git remote add new-origin git@github.com:destination/destination.git
   
5. move all local branches to destination repository
   git push --all new-origin 
   
6. move all tags to destination repository
   git push --tags new-origin   


C Move branch to new git repository and changing remote

after doing steps mentioned above to move branch from one git to another , use following command to set new 
origin in git.

git remote rm origin
git remote rename new-origin origin


   
Note : 
If you have already moved some branches and want to move one more branch from source git.
Running following command might override destination branche or give error. 
It is always good to move all branches and tags to new repository and start using new repository.