How to move git repository with all branches from bitbucket to github?

Question

What is the best way to move a git repository with all branches and full history from bitbucket to github? Is there a script or a list of commands I have to use?

Answer 1

I made the following bash script in order to clone ALL of my Bitbucket (user) repositories to GitHub as private repositories.

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Requirements:

• jq (command-line JSON processor) | MacOS: brew install jq

Steps:

1. Go to https://github.com/settings/tokens and create an access token. We only need the "repo" scope.

2. Save the move_me.sh script in a working folder and edit the file as needed.

3. Don't forget to CHMOD 755

4. Run! ./move_me.sh

5. Enjoy the time you have saved.

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Notes:

• It will clone the BitBucket repositories inside the directory the script resides (your working directory.)

• This script does not delete your BitBucket repositories.

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Need to move to public repositories on GitHub?

Find and change the "private": true to "private": false below.

Moving an organization's repositories?

Checkout the developer guide, it's a couple of edits away.

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Happy moving.

#!/bin/bash

BB_USERNAME=your_bitbucket_username 
BB_PASSWORD=your_bitbucket_password

GH_USERNAME=your_github_username
GH_ACCESS_TOKEN=your_github_access_token

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pagelen=$(curl -s -u $BB_USERNAME:$BB_PASSWORD https://api.bitbucket.org/2.0/repositories/$BB_USERNAME | jq -r '.pagelen')

echo "Total number of pages: $pagelen"

hr () {
  printf '%*s\n' "${COLUMNS:-$(tput cols)}" '' | tr ' ' -  
}

i=1

while [ $i -le $pagelen ]
do
  echo
  echo "* Processing Page: $i..."
  hr  
  pageval=$(curl -s -u $BB_USERNAME:$BB_PASSWORD https://api.bitbucket.org/2.0/repositories/$BB_USERNAME?page=$i)
  
  next=$(echo $pageval | jq -r '.next')
  slugs=($(echo $pageval | jq -r '.values[] | .slug'))
  repos=($(echo $pageval | jq -r '.values[] | .links.clone[1].href'))
  
  j=0
  for repo in ${repos[@]}
  do
    echo "$(($j + 1)) = ${repos[$j]}"
    slug=${slugs[$j]}
  git clone --bare $repo 
  cd "$slug.git"
  echo
  echo "* $repo cloned, now creating $slug on github..."  
  echo  

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