GitHub import Rake task
To retrieve and import GitHub repositories, you need a GitHub personal access token. A username should be passed as the second argument to the Rake task, which becomes the owner of the project. You can resume an import with the same command.
Bear in mind that the syntax is very specific. Remove any spaces in the argument block and
before/after the brackets. Also, some shells (for example, Zsh) can interpret the open/close brackets
([]) separately. You may want to either escape the brackets or use double quotes.
Prerequisite:
- At least the Maintainer role on the destination group to import to. Using the Developer role for this purpose was deprecated in GitLab 15.8 and will be removed in GitLab 16.0.
Caveats
If the GitHub rate limit is reached while
importing, the importing process waits (sleep()) until it can continue importing.
Importing multiple projects
To import a project from the list of your GitHub projects available:
# Omnibus installations
sudo gitlab-rake "import:github[access_token,root,foo/bar]"
# Installations from source
bundle exec rake "import:github[access_token,root,foo/bar]" RAILS_ENV=production
In this case, access_token is your GitHub personal access token, root
is your GitLab username, and foo/bar is the new GitLab namespace/project
created from your GitHub project. Subgroups are also possible: foo/foo/bar. The importer creates any missing intermediate namespaces (groups) if they do not exist.
Importing a single project
To import a specific GitHub project (named foo/github_repo here):
# Omnibus installations
sudo gitlab-rake "import:github[access_token,root,foo/bar,foo/github_repo]"
# Installations from source
bundle exec rake "import:github[access_token,root,foo/bar,foo/github_repo]" RAILS_ENV=production