GitLab Migrator

GitLab Migrator is a Java application which can be used primarily to map and migrate GitLab groups into a GitHub organisation. You can also use it to keep GitLab repositories synced up locally and eventuall it'll be able to keep your GitLab and GitHub in sync.

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Installation

TODO Needs implementing CI/CD for binaries and publish.

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Usage

Gitlab Migrator consists of the following commands

Init

This command will fetch the GitLab group, subgroups and repository information locally, will scan the GitHub organisation and then save this information.

gitlab-migrator init  --group-id-or-path=<groupIdOrPath>
                      --gitlab-access-token=<gitlabAccessToken>
                      --github-organization=<githubOrganization>
                      --github-personal-access-token=<githubAppInstalationToken>
                      [--migrator-db-file=<migratorDbFile>]

Export

This command will clone the gitlab repositories locally.

gitlab-migrator export  --target-directory=<targetDirectory>
                        --group-id-or-path=<groupIdOrPath>
                        --gitlab-access-token=<gitlabAccessToken>
                        --expanded=<expanded|false>
                        --enable-gitlab-logging=<enableGitLabLogging|false>

WIP Map Organisation

WIP Migrate

 
gitlab-migrator migrate --github-organization=<githubOrganization>
                        --github-personal-access-token=<githubAppInstalationToken>
                        --gitlab-personal-access-token=<gitlabPersonalAccessToken>
                        --group-id-or-path=<groupIdOrPath>
                        [--mapping-file=<mappingFile>]
                        [--target-directory=<targetDir>]
                        [--delete-organization-projects]

When executing the tool you'll go through two phases.

• In the first go, the tool will create a file (default value repo-mappings.json) which will be populated with a map of all repositories in the origin GitLab group at which point it will stop. You can now modify that map and customise the title of the target repository as GitHub does not have support for groups and sub-groups so this is a good moment to establish a naming convention.
• In the second run, the tool should start cloning locally the repositories in the target-directory location and once finished it should start creating repositories in the target GitHub organisation and pushing the local repos (including branches and tags) into them.
  • In case of errors during processing the mirrorStatus will move from TODO to ERROR or in case of hitting the GitHub API rate limit RATE_LIMIT_HIT_DELAYED. Once you understand the error or the rate limit has expired you can
    move the mirrorStatus back in TODO and the application will retry the repositories which are in TODO state. In that case it will skip the PUSHED or errored repositories and will also refresh the list in the case there are newly added repositories in the GitLab group.
• There's a nuclear option to nuke all GitHub organisation repositories if for some reason you want to refresh the repositories as we don't support sync between remotes. Contributions are welcome. Use at own responsibility!

{
  "repoMappings" : {
    "123456788" : {
      "id" : 123456788,
      "origin" : "top-group/sub-group/fancy-app",
      "title" : "TOPGROUP SUBGROUP fancy-app",
      "mirrorStatus" : "TODO"
    },
    "123456789" : {
      "id": 123456789,
      ...
    }
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Build

Creating the release files locally can be performed using

mvn clean install jreleaser:assemble

Contributing

Pull requests are welcome. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.

Please make sure to update tests as appropriate.

License

Apache-2.0

Roadmap

• Add and Validate support for hosted GitLab CE
• Track upstream repos and push updates.
• Handle adding users to organisation.
• Handle existing target repo.
• Not sure if description is migrated?
• Support multiple commands.
• Make it more robust.