Importing your project

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Step 4: Complete the Import

It's time for the big move! Since your source code is in Subversion, Mercurial, Team Foundation Server, or another Git repository, you can move it to GitHub using GitHub Importer. GitHub Importer doesn't bring over every piece of data, but it does bring the history. You can read more about GitHub Importer's capabilities here.

⌨️ Activity: Import your project using GitHub Importer

1. Copy the URL for your existing repository on Subversion, Mercurial, TFS, or another Git server
2. Navigate to the Code tab of this repository and scroll down to the section labeled …or import code from another repository
3. Click Import code
4. Paste the URL for your repository in its current location
5. Click Begin import

Pro-tip, since this repository is empty, you can also import by simply going to: https://github.com/deuspaul/github-move/import

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Watch below for my response

🤖 Once I see you have pushed your project to GitHub, I'll close this issue

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Welcome to GitHub @deuspaul

As soon as I see code in this repository, I will close this issue and stop responding in this repository. So, before I say good-bye, I want to recap all the tasks you've accomplished. You:

• Learned what to do with an empty repo on GitHub ✨
• Created a .gitignore and removed bulky binaries
• Used GitHub Importer for the first time
• Set your code up in a GitHub repository 🎆

What's Next?

After you've migrated your Git repository to GitHub, managing your repository and adding collaborators are common next steps. Here is another course we think you might be interested in:

Community Starter Kit
Hosting a project on GitHub enables you to share your work with millions of other developers. This course will walk you through the different items you can add to your repository to welcome new contributors and make it easier for them to report issues, suggest new features, or potentially submit a pull request!

There's so much more you can do with GitHub, and you have a solid start. Now...what will you learn next?