Tool to migrate from one git to another git

Question

Our project code repository is in Gitlab and want to move to Github. Do we have any tools to migrate complete history,branches and commits?

Appreciate your help. Thank you.

did you ever took a look at: https://gist.github.com/niksumeiko/8972566 ? — denis_lor, Mar 06 '20 at 22:17
Thank you.. later i found https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/git-move-repository which had step by step instructions.. — Prabhu shanmughapriyan, Mar 09 '20 at 15:21

knittl · Answer 1 · 2020-03-06T22:55:22.233

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If you only want to migrate history (branches and commits) and not any wiki or tickets, it's pretty straightforward:

Clone the original repository
Push it to the new location

git clone --mirror your_old_repository local_directory
cd local_directory
git push --mirror your_new_repository

edited Mar 06 '20 at 22:55

answered Mar 06 '20 at 22:17

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Thank you @knittl. – Prabhu shanmughapriyan Mar 09 '20 at 15:21

eftshift0 · Answer 2 · 2020-03-06T23:03:44.460

The best tool to migrate branches from one repo to another comes preinstalled with git. It's called git. You need to add a new remote to your local repo and push the branches to the new remote instead of the old one (origin?). So:

git remote add gh https://www.github.com/blahblahblah.git
git fetch gh # just in case
git push gh master develop staging v1.2.4

That way you pushed 3 branches and one tag into the brand new gh repo, no real need to go fancy.

If you later decided that gh is your new origin, then it's a matter of renaming remotes, a different question altogether (even to the point to sneack the change behind git's back by changing the url straight into .git/config ;-)).

Tool to migrate from one git to another git

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