GitLab-to-GitHub

A Python script for importing GitLab repositories into GitHub and GitLab through APIs

How It Works

1. Create empty private repository on GitHub / GitLab
2. Clone desired GitLab repository to local temp folder using git clone <gitlab-url> <path>
3. Update remote repo url in GitLab repo clone using git remote set-url origin <new-repo-url>
4. Push GitLab repo clone to repo created in Step 1 using git push --all
5. Delete temp folder on local machine

Usage

Setup

1. Generate access tokens and put each in a separate text file
2. Git clone this repo
3. Cd into the repo clone
4. Create and activate virtual environment (tutorial)
5. Install dependencies
6. Complete TODO at the top of importRepos.py

git clone https://github.com/liy-che/gitlab-to-github.git
cd gitlab-to-github
python -m venv venv
pip install -r requirements.txt
# open and complete importRepos.py TODO

Running the Script

python importRepos.py [-h] [-l] srcSecret.txt destSecret.txt

positional arguments:
  srcSecret.txt   File that contains only the secret key for the source API
  destSecret.txt  File that contains only the secret key for the destination API

optional arguments:
  -h, --help      show this help message and exit
  -l, --gitlab    specifies that the destination is gitlab