Migrating Your GitLab Repositories

When migrating repositories from GitLab, they fall into two categories:

1. Repositories created under a group space (e.g. https://git.dartmouth.edu/GROUP/repo)

2. Repositories created under your personal space (e.g. https://git.dartmouth.edu/NETID/repo)

1. Migrating repositories from a group space

• To migrate your repositories from GitLab to the Dartmouth GitHub organization, please create a service request. We will then invite you to the Dartmouth's GitHub organization and assist you with the migration process.

  Service Request Link

2. Migrating repositories from your personal space

• If you only want to clone the repositories locally on your machine, you can ignore the next step in this guide
• Create an account with an alternative Git service (e.g. github.com, gitlab.com, etc.)
• Complete the following steps
  1. Clone the repository locally
  2. Create a new repository on the destination platform
  3. Update repository configuration
  4. Push to the new repository
  5. Verify migration and update places where you've been using this repository
• Here are the example commands you can follow to accomplish these steps

# Clone the repository from GitLab
git clone <your-git-repo-uri>
cd your-repo

# Create the repository in the new location using the Service Website

# Set the new remote repository URL (if migrating to a new platform)
git remote rename origin old-origin
git remote add origin <your-new-git-remote-repo-uri>

# Push all branches to the new remote
git push --set-upstream origin --all

# Push all tags to the new remote
git push --set-upstream origin --tags