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copied!<p>I believe I've found the answer for myself. It boils down to how you create the repository (and is my formal introduction to bare repos).</p> <p>In short, you can clone a repo the default way:</p> <pre><code>git clone https://github.com/foobar/myrepo.git </code></pre> <p>Which yields a local clone with working directory <em>myrepo</em>, within which is the <em>myrepo/.git</em> directory tree.</p> <p>Or you can clone it bare. <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3959924/whats-the-difference-between-git-clone-mirror-and-git-clone-bare">There are a couple of ways to do this</a>, but the --mirror option <s>appears to</s> yields the most complete replica:</p> <pre><code>git clone --mirror https://github.com/foobar/myrepo.git </code></pre> <p>This produces the <em>myrepo.git</em> directory (as one might see in gerrit or in gitolite) which has the same structure as the <em>myrepo/.git</em> directory above, but without the working directory bits.</p> <p><em>Note: I'll add that I'm not sure now whether a mirror is preferable to a bare clone with remote refs for the branches... I've got <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12398700/initializing-a-local-git-gerrit-repository-whats-the-optimal-way-to-do-this">another thread going</a> that inquires about this. For completeness, then, here's a way to create a bare clone with remote refs (the key being no working directory):</em></p> <pre><code>git init --bare ${LOCAL_REPO} cd ${LOCAL_REPO} git remote add origin ${REMOTE_URL} git fetch origin --tags git fetch origin </code></pre> <p>I tested the mirror idea as a one-off, cloning a repo straight into the local gerrit installation folder where <em>All-Projects.git</em> also lives, restarted gerrit and it sees the repo as well as all its branches. However, it's not the ideal way for gerrit. You should instead push from a local clone (preferably a bare one).</p> <p>So in gerrit, create a new empty project via the web admin interface (I didn't put an initial empty commit into it - not sure if that would cause problems), then from within a local mirror of the repo you're trying to replicate, push it to the new, empty gerrit repo along with the branches and tags:</p> <pre><code>git push <gerrit_repo> refs/heads/* refs/tags/* </code></pre>

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