Migrating a git based project from Google Code to Github

[krishnanand]

I would like to fork a project hosted on Google code and host my fork on github if possible.

Is there a tool for something like this? There is a SVN to Git tool (https://help.github.com/articles/importing-from-subversion) but not sure if there is a tool to migrate code from one hosting service to another.

Any assistance would be appreciated.

[holman]

Hi!

We don't have any specific importers on GitHub proper, but I'd head in that same direction if I were you. Find a decent importer, import your code locally into Git (if it's in something else like Subversion, for example), and then create a new repository on GitHub and push your updated local repository that way.

Let me know if you need any help!

[krishnanand]

I apologize for the delay, but I have run into some problems here and there but was finally able to resolve the issue. If you think that this will help some one.. please feel free to share it.

1. Create a new repo on github.com with this link https://help.github.com/articles/creating-a-new-repository
2. git clone https://code.google.com/p/ project-name.git
3. Set the remote origin url as follows: git remote set-url origin https://github.com/ username/ repo-name.git
4. git pull to pull the latest.
5. git push origin master after making local changes.

This is the original repo: https://code.google.com/p/test-libraries-for-java
This is my forked repo: https://github.com/krishnanand/test-libraries-for-java/

Please feel free to share if you think it helps any one.