Migrate a complete Git Repository from TFS to VSTS

February 10, 2017 by Rene van Osnabrugge 4 Comments

I am migrating some Git repositories from a TFS server to VSTS. Moving a Git repo including all the history is very simple fo course. Since Git is a Distributed Source Control repository. But I always forget the syntax of moving the “complete” Git repository at once. With all the branches, tags etc.

So here it is. At least for 1 reader in the future..Me..

Clone the Git repo with everything in it

git clone  [old git url] --mirror

Add the new remote

git remote add vsts [new git url]

Push all the changes

git push vsts --mirror

That’s it !

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4 Responses to “Migrate a complete Git Repository from TFS to VSTS”

Arjan February 11, 2017 at 9:32 am

Haha, it’s the magic mirrror switch!
- Rene van Osnabrugge February 11, 2017 at 9:36 am
  
  Now that I have wrote it down I probably won’t ever forget it anymore 🙂
Luke May 9, 2017 at 5:45 pm

I’m facing an issue. It shows me the below

No refs in common and none specified; doing nothing.
Perhaps you should specify a branch such as ‘master’.
Everything up-to-date
- Rene van Osnabrugge May 25, 2017 at 7:54 am
  
  Have you created a new repo ?