Push local Git repo to new remote including all branches and tags

To push all your branches, use either (replace REMOTE with the name of the remote, for example "origin"):

git push REMOTE '*:*'
git push REMOTE --all

To push all your tags:

git push REMOTE --tags

Finally, I think you can do this all in one command with:

git push REMOTE --mirror

However, in addition --mirror, will also push your remotes, so this might not be exactly what you want.


Here is another take on the same thing which worked better for the situation I was in. It solves the problem where you have more than one remote, would like to clone all branches in remote source to remote destination but without having to check them all out beforehand.

(The problem I had with Daniel's solution was that it would refuse to checkout a tracking branch from the source remote if I had previously checked it out already, ie, it would not update my local branch before the push)

git push destination +refs/remotes/source/*:refs/heads/*

Note: If you are not using direct CLI, you must escape the asterisks:

git push destination +refs/remotes/source/\*:refs/heads/\*

  • @mattalxndr

this will push all branches in remote source to a head branch in destination, possibly doing a non-fast-forward push. You still have to push tags separately.


In the case like me that you aquired a repo and are now switching the remote origin to a different repo, a new empty one...

So you have your repo and all the branches inside, but you still need to checkout those branches for the git push --all command to actually push those too.

You should do this before you push:

for remote in `git branch -r | grep -v master `; do git checkout --track $remote ; done

Followed by

git push --all

This is the most concise way I have found, provided the destination is empty. Switch to an empty folder and then:

# Note the period for cwd >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> v
git clone --bare https://your-source-repo/repo.git .
git push --mirror https://your-destination-repo/repo.git

Substitute https://... for file:///your/repo etc. as appropriate.

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