After creation of a new project in GitLab CE and pushing a repository on my PC to it with the command:
git push --mirror origin
I've got lots of errors like
(deny updating a hidden ref)
The remote is a corporate GitLab. It exists and is accessible
origin ssh://git@... (fetch)
origin ssh://git@... (push)
I simulated the remote by creating a directory on my file system and running in it:
git init --bare
Added this directory as a remote, named it local and retried the initial push with this remote:
git push --mirror local
and it worked. All the branches were copied. So what's the problem with pushing to the corporate remote? Isn't the repo in GitLab created with git init --bare? Are there some settings needed?
The commands that GitLab suggests at the project's page are the following:
Push an existing Git repository
cd existing_repo
git remote rename
origin old-origin
git remote add origin ssh://...git
git push -u
origin --all git
push -u origin --tags
but they only seem to push local branches. Does it mean that I have to do:
git checkout -b branch1 other_remote/branch1
for each branch from the other_remote so that they become local and then do the push to the corporate remote with the commands suggested at GitLab project page? This is somehow tedious...
