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How to migrate from GitLab to Github.md

How to migrate a Repo from GitLab to GitHub

Remove all files about 100MB

Following close to these steps and borrowing some of these

You must use BFG Repo-Cleaner to meet GitHub's file size requirements. Download BFG Repo-Cleaner into the same directory of where you're gonna clone your repos in this process.

git clone --mirror https://gitlab.com/gluser/your-original-repo.git

Rename the bfg .jar file to bfg.jar. It's easier to type it thise way.

cd your-original-repo.git
git reflog expire --expire=now --all
git gc --prune=now --aggressive

The gc command should take some time

Instead of pushing the repo back to GitLab Push the mirror to GitHub!

git push --mirror https://github.com/ghuser/your-new-repo.git

THIS WILL LOOK LIKE IT'S NOT DOING ANYTHING LEAVE IT ALONE FOR A FEW MINUTES

When you're done the repo should now be on GitHub!

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