Import an existing git project into GitLab?

Question

I have an account of a Gitlab installation where I created the repository \"ffki-startseite\"

Now I want to clone the repository git://freifunk.in-kiel.de/ffki

Answer 1

Gitlab is a little bit bugged on this feature. You can lose a lot of time doing troubleshooting specially if your project is any big.

The best solution would be using the create/import tool, do not forget put your user name and password, otherwise it won't import anything at all.

Follow my screenshots

Answer 2

git clone --mirror git@github.com:username/repo-name.git

git remote add gitlab ssh://git@servername.com/username/repo.git

git push -f --tags gitlab refs/heads/*:refs/heads/*

It is better to do it over ssh, the https might won't work

Answer 3

To keep ALL TAGS AND BRANCHES

Just simply run this command in an existing Git repository

cd existing_repo
git remote rename origin previous-hosts
git remote add gitlab git@git.hutber.com:hutber/kindred.com.git
git push -u gitlab --all
git push -u gitlab --tags

Answer 4

This is a basic move one repo to new location. I use this sequence all te time. With --bare no source files will be seen.

Open Git Bash.
Create a bare clone of the repository.

git clone --bare https://github.com/exampleuser/old-repository.git

Mirror-push to the new repository.

cd old-repository.git

git push --mirror https://github.com/exampleuser/new-repository.git

Remove the temporary local repository you created in step 1.

cd ../
rm -rf old-repository.git

Why mirror? See documentation of git: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-push

--all Push all branches (i.e. refs under refs/heads/); cannot be used with other .

--mirror Instead of naming each ref to push, specifies that all refs under refs/ (which includes but is not limited to refs/heads/, refs/remotes/, and refs/tags/) be mirrored to the remote repository. Newly created local refs will be pushed to the remote end, locally updated refs will be force updated on the remote end, and deleted refs will be removed from the remote end. This is the default if the configuration option remote..mirror is set.