Adding a remote pointing to a local git repo appears to fail

Question

I'm following this SO article to migrate a local branch in one repo to a local branch in a new repo (we migrated from github to gitlab).

How to merge branches in 2 different repositories?

I encountered a problem along the way. I added a remote pointing to the old github local repo:

git remote add github-local ~/myprojectdir/src/.git

When I run git branch -r in the newly cloned gitlab repo, I expected to see branches from both github-local (the remote I just added above), and from origin. But I only see branches from origin.

The next step in the SO article above is to create a branch and track github-local/mybranch:

git checkout -b mybranch --track github-local/mybranch

I assume I can't do that if I don't see it in the list of remotes when I run git branch -r?

Egor Laufer · Accepted Answer · 2018-06-19 23:28:32Z

First check your remote shows up in remotes list. Run git remote -v. The output should be similar to:

github-local ~/myprojectdir/src/.git (fetch) github-local ~/myprojectdir/src/.git (push) origin repo_url (fetch) origin repo_url (push)

If github-local shows up in remote list, you are simply missing git fetch --all.

After that you should be able to track branches from github-local as you posted in question. Run:

git checkout -b mybranch --track github-local/mybranch

Then verify everything is as you expect by running git branch -vv. The output should be similar to:

mybranch 068512a [github-local/mybranch] commit_message

git fetch -all, that was it. Brilliant. Thanks! Makes lots of sense in hindsight.

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