Import an existing git project into GitLab?

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rubo77 picture rubo77 · Dec 3, 2013 · Viewed 218.8k times · Source

I have an account of a Gitlab installation where I created the repository "ffki-startseite"

Now I want to clone the repository git://freifunk.in-kiel.de/ffki-startseite.git into that repository with all commits and branches, so I can start working on it in my own scope.

How can I import it?

Answer

raveren picture raveren · May 27, 2015

I was able to fully export my project along with all commits, branches and tags to gitlab via following commands run locally on my computer:

To illustrate my example, I will be using https://github.com/raveren/kint as the source repository that I want to import into gitlab. I created an empty project named Kint (under namespace raveren) in gitlab beforehand and it told me the http git url of the newly created project there is http://gitlab.example.com/raveren/kint.git

The commands are OS agnostic.

In a new directory:

git clone --mirror https://github.com/raveren/kint
cd kint.git
git remote add gitlab http://gitlab.example.com/raveren/kint.git
git push gitlab --mirror

Now if you have a locally cloned repository that you want to keep using with the new remote, just run the following commands* there:

git remote remove origin
git remote add origin http://gitlab.example.com/raveren/kint.git
git fetch --all

*This assumes that you did not rename your remote master from origin, otherwise, change the first two lines to reflect it.

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