Push online repo to bitbucket

Question

I'm using sourcetree and want to move my work along with its commit history to another account on source tree so more people can access it. It is a clone of another repo on the target account, but I need to show how it evolved so others can trace bugs.

I googled many different combinations, including this posts' exact title, but couldn't find ANYWHERE that tells you how to do this. All I get is unrelated searches about how to: create a repo

upload a new repo

upload an existing repo to new repo

clone an existing repo to new repo

but NOT how to:

clone an existing repo TO another repo

clone an existing repo AS BRANCH OF another repo

I know this can be done because I've done it before, but that time it was an 8 hour google session and I really don't want to go through that again...

Please help me!

Answer 1

I think you are getting bogged down with trying to copy your remote repository because you are insisting that the operation must be a direct copy on the server. This need not be the case. As this blog discusses, you can achieve what you want by cloning the repository locally, creating a new repository on BitBucket, and then simply pushing your code to this new repository:

# change directory to location of copy
mkdir NEW-PROJECT.git
cd NEW-PROJECT.git

# create a local copy of the repository
git clone --bare https://[email protected]/username/OLD-PROJECT.git

# now create an empty repository on BitBucket called NEW-PROJECT

# push your entire code base to this new repository
git push --mirror https://[email protected]/username/NEW-PROJECT.git