Question

I have a repository that is on Github and I want to move it to Codeplex.

I want to take all of the existing commits from my Github repo and push them to a new Codeplex repo.

I don’t think this is the right approach, but I tried:

git remote github add url
git remote update
git add .
git commit

But there is nothing to commit, it downloads the github repo, but the working directory is empty.

How do I switch to the Github master branch, add all of the files to the Codeplex master branch, and push the commits to Codeplex?

Ideally moving forward I would like to be able to continue working on the Github branch and push changes to Codeplex.

Answer 1

Adding a Remote

Assuming you’ve already set up your Codeplex repository, and that GitHub is currently marked as origin, then you can do something like this.

git remote add codeplex https://foo/bar/baz
git push codeplex master

To review your remotes, use git remote -v and you’ll see what remotes you’ve defined, as well as the URLs they point to. You can work with multiple remotes; just make sure you’ve got both GitHub and Codeplex correctly set up as remotes. You can then push/pull from GitHub as you normally do, and then explicitly push to Codeplex whenever you want.