Migrating the Git Repository to another server

Remote Git (only once)

• create Team account on git host
• create PRIVATE repository on git host
• $ git fetch
• using git checkout create a local copy for every remote branch: $ git checkout branch1, $ git checkout branch2 etc. (you may use the attached git-checkouter.rb script for this)
• $ git remote add new-origin [REPO-URL]
• $ git push -u new-origin --all
• $ git push -u new-origin --tags
• $ git remote remove origin
• $ git remote rename new-origin origin

Local Git (for everyone)

• create user account on the new git host
• add your public SSH key to the host (somewhere in Settings)
• get added to the team by the admin
• in .git/config update the remotes (probably just one "origin") to the new repository URL

Deployment (only once)

• on all servers, remove the cached-copy in the shared directory
• in the app code: in config/deploy.rb update the repository URL
• on all web-servers connect once to the git host, to accept the authenticity of the host, e.g. $ ssh github.com