Migrating from gitorious – it sucks.


I can no longer push to gitorious so I tried to run the import of all my repos (and there are alot) into GitHub. This failed miserably. Only two of 34 repos were imported. Some of the repos actually got created on GitLab but there is nothing in them. So I tried to import one of them manually. It's been running for about 20 minutes now and nothing is happening. No errors, no messages, no nothing. Just a spinning wheel.

I dug around and found the process for migrating a repo, be it to GitLab or GitHub or whatever.  It requires manual creation of each repository.  While gitorious allowed me to have different projects with different repos under them, GitHub does not.  At least I don't see a way to do that.  GitLab does, but they call them groups.  The import appears to have created the groups but that's all it did.

So I guess I can try doing this manually under each group, after manually creating each repo.  *sigh*  This is a strong argument for running my own git server and gitweb.

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