A set of Python scripts to migrate repositories from GitLab to GitHub using GitHub Importer (i.e. without creating a local clone).
- Python 3.7 or newer
- Pipenv
Install dependencies by running pipenv install.
Create personal access token both for GitLab and GitHub.
For GitLab, visit Settings / Access Tokens. Create a new token with any name and the scopes: api and read_repository.
For GitHub, follow the documentation. Create a new token with scope repo.
Export the resulting tokens either as environment variables:
export GITLAB_TOKEN=<paste your GitLab token here>
export GITHUB_TOKEN=<paste your GitHub token here>or modify config.py and paste the tokens as value of GITLAB_TOKEN and GITHUB_TOKEN respectively.
With tokens setup, you can start import process. The process is separated into three phases.
Run:
pipenv run python 1-projects.py
This will create a file gitlab_projects.json with a list of projects to be imported in the following phase.
You can modify this list, for example change name property if you wish to import the project under different name, set visibility to "private" if the imported project should be private or delete the project completely if you don't wish to import it.
Run:
pipenv run python 2-import.py
This will use a list of projects from the previous step, create a new repository (respecting privacy of the original project) and start an import task using the GitLab's HTTPS URL and access token. If the repository of the same name exists, it will be skipped. The results are stored into github_projects.jsonl file for the next step.
You will receive an e-mail from GitHub for each repository as the import finishes (or fails).
Once the repositories are imported, you can optionally re-archive the imported GitHub repositories by running:
pipenv run python 3-archive.py
This will use the output file from the previous phase. Repositories which were skipped, not originally archived, or not completely imported will be ignored.
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