In your example, does "remote2" represent the name of my remote Git repo? What is "origin/branch-foo" and does the path "refs/heads/branch-foo" need to actually exist in my .git directory? On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 10:54 PM, Jacob Helwig <jacob.helwig@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 06:36, Bradley Wagner > <bradley.wagner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Do I need to convert these remote tags/branches into local Git >> tags/branches before pushing them to my remote Git repo or is there a >> way to push remote branches directly to my remote Git repo? >> > > You don't need to "convert" the branches to local ones. git-push will > accept any ref your local repo knows about when you do a push. For > example "git push remote2 origin/branch-foo:refs/heads/branch-foo" > works just fine, even if you don't have a "local" branch called > "branch-foo", and it will push the branch-foo branch out to the > remote2 remote repository. > > The tags, you'll need to convert to _actual_ tags, instead of just > branches under a tags/ namespace. Unless you're fine with them > staying as pseudo-tags, then you can just push them out as you would > any other branch. > > -Jacob > -- Hannon Hill - Put Us to the Test bradley.wagner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx | http://www.hannonhill.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html