Migrating Github/Gitlab Projects and Repositories

August 29, 2022

In this post we will look into how to migrate a Repository from GitHub to GitLab. The same process works from GitLab to GitHub

Clone the source repository

Clone the source repository on your workstation

git clone --bare git@github.com:uonyekwuluje/devops-labs.git

Push & update target repository

The target repository should be created and setup

# Set one or the order
git@gitlabci-server.ucheonyekwuluje.com:app-code/apptest.git
https://gitlabci-server.ucheonyekwuluje.com/app-code/apptest.git

cd devops-labs.git
git push --mirror git@gitlabci-server.ucheonyekwuluje.com:app-code/apptest.git
OR
git push --mirror https://gitlabci-server.ucheonyekwuluje.com/app-code/apptest.git
<enter username>
<enter password>

Reference Links

• https://blog.knoldus.com/how-to-migrate-a-repository-from-github-to-gitlab/