Migrate Your Repos From Github To Gitea+

- 2 mins read

Hello, it is me again. Here today talking about getting repos off of GitHub and taking them elsewhere.

Any one of the great alternatives that exist out there like {GitLab, Gitea, Gogs, Bitbucket}.

In my particular case - I am messing around with self-hosting a Gitea instance, so that will be the focus here.

Setup

First thing, we will need to get access to the GitHub cli tool gh.

and you are off to the races.

A Script

#!/bin/bash
#
# Script to pull all Github Repos and rsync to destination
#

REPO_ROOT="$HOME/gh-repos"
DEST_ROOT="$HOME/docker/gitea/data/git/repositories/jam"

# make repo root
[ ! -d "$REPO_ROOT" ] && mkdir "$REPO_ROOT"
cd "$REPO_ROOT"

# clone all repos listed with gh cli
for repo in $(gh repo list -L 100 | awk '{print $1}'); do
  [ ! -d "$(basename $repo)" ] && gh repo clone $repo
done

# pull and rsync to destination (gitea in this case)
for d in "$REPO_ROOT/"*; do
  if [ -d "$d" ]; then
    echo "[git pull && rsync] repo: $d"
    pushd $d > /dev/null
    git pull && rsync -avz ".git/" "$DEST_ROOT/$(basename $d).git/"
    popd > /dev/null
  fi  
done

This script will clone and pull all repos from GitHub into $REPO_ROOT and it will rsync the .git folder of these repos to $DEST_ROOT (this is the location that my Gitea docker instance is configured to look for repositories).

After this, you may need to adopt your repos in Gitea, which is a simple process of hitting a button in the UI. One thing to note is the process of importing repos from local filesystem may differ on other git hosts.

As always happy hosting and happy hacking!