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missing refs/heads for branches after pushing to new remote

I am migrating repositories from gitolite to bitbucket (on-prem) using the following steps:

1) Clone existing repository from gitolite:

git clone git@gitolite.mydomain.com:/hello-world

2) Add new remote for bitbucket:

git remote add origin-bb ssh://git@bitbucket.mydomain.com:7999/test/hello-world.git

3) Push all branches to new bitbucket origin:

git push origin-bb --all

4) Push all tags to new bitbucket origin

git push origin-bb --tags

The pushes complete successfully with no errors. However, when I compare the refs between the two origins using git ls-remote -h origin and git ls-remote -h origin-bb the original remote has refs/heads listed for all branches, while the new remote only has refs/heads/master listed:

git ls-remote -h origin-bb

0079dbeb885c9d88ac200d533930e2e72feb3627        refs/heads/master

git ls-remote -h origin

3215eca2b034d4ee8406bca9b648808fb489c110        refs/heads/hot_fixes
5cfec9cab26d2805064b076d701e53e12ff59c51        refs/heads/develop
61e7efadb6c071f25007dda55ce8c9b73802e1c3        refs/heads/experiment
0079dbeb885c9d88ac200d533930e2e72feb3627        refs/heads/master

Is this the expected behavior or do I need an additional option when pushing to the new remote to ensure all refs are included?

Solution

  • Compare git ls-remote origin not with git ls-remote origin-bb but with git ls-remote . i.e. with the current repo. I'm sure you'll see you only have 1 branch master and that is what git push --all pushed.

    First you need to fetch all branches to the local repo as git clone clones only 1 branch:

    git fetch origin hot_fixes:hot_fixes
git fetch origin experiment:experiment

    And now repeat git push --all origin-bb.