I am working against the customer's on premises TFS server using the git-tfs bridge. Yesterday they migrated their installation to a new version + changed the URL of the server, migrating all the history and the work items to a new instance.
Is there a way to remap my existing git repository to the new default remote?
I tried to manually edit the url property of the [tfs-remote "default"] so it points to the new address and run every possible cleanup* command. However, on a fetch attempt there is a bootstrapping process adding a new tfs-remote with the old URL to the config file.
You've got 2 solutions:
The first, which should be the easier. But, because git-tfs has evolved a lot since it was implemented, I don't know if it still work even if it should...
Second, that will work for sure, is to update the metadata of the commit corresponding to last changeset fetched from the old TFS. It is used by git-tfs to bootstrap the new tfs-remote when none is found in the gitconfig file.
Amend the git commit and replace the url in the metadata (something looking like that: git-tfs-id: [https://tfs.codeplex.com:443/tfs/TFS16]$/vtccds/trunk;C26497 ) to point to the new TFS.
Create a backup of your original .git/config file:
cp .git/config .git/config.bak
Remove all the [tfs-remote] settings in the .git/config file.
Just do a normal git tfs fetch from the command line.