Bitbucket cloud importing

[calebAtIspot]

Description

We are investigating the possibility of migrating hundreds of Bitbucket cloud repos to Github. I saw that you have a bitbucket server importer, so I'm wondering why not a bitbucket cloud importer? They are pretty similar right? I'm curious if you already tried to do a cloud importer and ran into an issue.

I'm also wondering if you're open to a PR adding cloud importing functionality.

Third question, I'm wondering if bitbucket cloud importing would be better off as a separate extension or a refactoring of the current bitbucket extension

[dylan-smith]

BitBucket Server and BitBucket Cloud are actually significantly different. They started their lives as separate products that were subsequently renamed to BitBucket. The API's are very different. And specifically for the GitHub migration tooling, BitBucket Cloud doesn't support the generation of migration archives which is what the migration process from BBS relies on.

[calebAtIspot]

Yeah, I was just looking into that and I saw that bitbucket cloud doesn't have a migration endpoint, the API's are different

https://github.com/github/gh-gei/blob/main/src/Octoshift/Services/BbsApi.cs#L59C48-L59C57
https://confluence.atlassian.com/bitbucketserver078/exporting-1037994732.html
https://api.bitbucket.org/2.0/migration/exports/preview

Would you be open to a PR adding a bitbucket cloud importer extension?

[ArinGhazarian]

👋 @calebAtIspot,

Would you be open to a PR adding a bitbucket cloud importer extension?

It won't work as you expect it to. The gh-gei CLI is basically calling the GEI's backend via GraphQL so in order for it to work it needs to be added to the backend.