Converting a gitlab export to simple git repo

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Converting a gitlab export to simple git repo

• Initial credit to https://gist.github.com/maxivak/513191447d15c4d30953006d99928658

Gitlab exports a tar.gz file which contains a file called project.bundle. We can convert this file into a normal git repo using the following steps:

Extract the project.bundle file

$ tar xvfz GitLabExport.gz
x ./
x ./project.bundle
x ./project.json
x ./VERSION

$ ls -l project.bundle
-rw-r--r--@ 1 pgregg  pgregg  69055 21 Dec 12:06 project.bundle

Restore the bundle to git repo

$ mkdir repo
$ git clone --mirror project.bundle repo/.git
$ cd repo
$ git init
$ git checkout

Check contents

$ git status
On branch master
nothing to commit, working tree clean
$ ls
README.md