Hello, Let's say there'a s hosting service hosting a repository which I want to self-host. I don't just want to do a mirror, but I want to keep it in sync (using a cronjob). In addition, I want to have private branches on the self-hosted repository. (In this particular case, the "hosting service" is github, and "self-hosting" is bitbucket -- but I'm looking for a solution which is agnostic with regards to hosting service(s)). Searching, reading and asking around led me to the following (these are scripts which are run on a separate system which acts as a git bridge): init: git clone --mirror $UPSTREAMURL $DSTDIR cd $DSTDIR git remote rename origin upstream git config remotes.default 'upstream' git remote add --mirror=push origin $DOWNSTREAMURL And then to keep self-hosted repository in sync with upstream: cd $DSTDIR git remote update --prune git push This seems to accomplish everything I want except that the the "git push" deletes any branches I have created on my self-hosted repository. Am I doing it completely wrong? If not, how do I make my branches survive the push? -- Kind regards, Jan Danielsson
