Basic question: How do I disassociate a git repo from the origin from which it was cloned?
git branch -a shows:
* master
remotes/origin/HEAD -> origin/master
and I want to remove all knowledge of origin, and the associated revisions.
Longer question: I want to take an existing subversion repo and make a number of smaller git repos from it. Each of the new git repos should have the full history of just the relevant branch. I can prune the repo to just the wanted subtree using:
git filter-branch --subdirectory-filter path/to/subtree HEAD
but the resulting repo still contains all the revisions of the now-discarded subtrees under the origin/master branch.
I realise that I could use the -T flag to git-svn to clone the relevant subtree of the subversion repo in the first place. I'm not sure if that would be more efficient than later running multiple instantiations of git filter-branch --subdirectory-filter on copies of the git repo but, in any case, I would still like to break the link with the origin.
4 Answers
Fairly straightforward:
git remote rm origin
As for the filter-branch question - just add --prune-empty to your filter branch command and it'll remove any revision that doesn't actually contain any changes in your resulting repo:
git filter-branch --prune-empty --subdirectory-filter path/to/subtree HEAD
Remove existing origin and add new origin to your project directory
>$ git remote show origin
>$ git remote rm origin
>$ git add .
>$ git commit -m "First commit"
>$ git remote add origin Copied_origin_url
>$ git remote show origin
>$ git push origin master
In my case git branch -r would keep showing origin/master on the local repository (after I renamed master on remote and local)
This fixed it:
E:\SourceCode\PascalCoinGit\PascalCoin>git remote prune origin
Pruning origin
URL:
* [pruned] origin/master
E:\SourceCode\PascalCoinGit\PascalCoin>
Command:
git remote show origin
(Seen it before but completely forgot about it)
Result:
E:\SourceCode\PascalCoinGit\PascalCoin>git remote show origin
* remote origin
Fetch URL:
Push URL:
HEAD branch: PascalCoinMaster
Remote branches:
GUIExperimentalBugFixes1 tracked
GUIExperimentalBugFixes2 tracked
GUIExperimentalBugFixes3 tracked
GUIExperimentalBugFixes4 tracked
GUIExperimentalBugFixes5 tracked
MergeTest tracked
PIP-0026Windows7Implementation tracked
PascalCoinMaster tracked
SkybuckMaster tracked
TestPascalCoinMaster tracked
refs/remotes/origin/master stale (use 'git remote prune' to remove)
Local branches configured for 'git pull':
GUIExperimentalBugFixes1 merges with remote GUIExperimentalBugFixes1
GUIExperimentalBugFixes2 merges with remote GUIExperimentalBugFixes2
GUIExperimentalBugFixes4 merges with remote GUIExperimentalBugFixes4
GUIExperimentalBugFixes5 merges with remote GUIExperimentalBugFixes5
MergeTest merges with remote MergeTest
PIP-0026Windows7Implementation merges with remote PIP-0026Windows7Implementation
SkybuckMaster merges with remote SkybuckMaster
Local refs configured for 'git push':
GUIExperimentalBugFixes1 pushes to GUIExperimentalBugFixes1 (up to date)
GUIExperimentalBugFixes2 pushes to GUIExperimentalBugFixes2 (up to date)
GUIExperimentalBugFixes3 pushes to GUIExperimentalBugFixes3 (up to date)
GUIExperimentalBugFixes4 pushes to GUIExperimentalBugFixes4 (up to date)
GUIExperimentalBugFixes5 pushes to GUIExperimentalBugFixes5 (up to date)
MergeTest pushes to MergeTest (up to date)
PIP-0026Windows7Implementation pushes to PIP-0026Windows7Implementation (fast-forwardable)
PascalCoinMaster pushes to PascalCoinMaster (up to date)
SkybuckMaster pushes to SkybuckMaster (up to date)
TestPascalCoinMaster pushes to TestPascalCoinMaster (up to date)
E:\SourceCode\PascalCoinGit\PascalCoin>
Yup, git branch -r now shows it's gone!
Use this> git show origin > git remote rm origin
