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Importing from other version control systems with the administrative shell

Using the administrative shell, you can import from Subversion, Mercurial and Team Foundation Version Control to Git repositories on GitHub Enterprise Server.

Who can use this feature?

Site administrators can use the administrative shell to import data from other version control systems.

In this article

Importing projects from Mercurial

  1. SSH into your GitHub Enterprise Server instance. If your instance comprises multiple nodes, for example if high availability or geo-replication are configured, SSH into the primary node. If you use a cluster, you can SSH into any node. Replace HOSTNAME with the hostname for your instance, or the hostname or IP address of a node. For more information, see "Accessing the administrative shell (SSH)."

    Shell
    ssh -p 122 admin@HOSTNAME

  2. Make a raw clone of the project using the command below, specifying the URL of the source project, and a path to a temporary repository:

    $ git-import-hg-raw HG-CLONE-URL/PATH/REPO-NAME.git
# Creates a new repository with one or more Git refs in "refs/import/" in the specified path.

  3. Review the comma-separated (CSV) file in /PATH/REPO-NAME.git/git-import/raw-authors.csv. It should contain these columns:

    • ID: The author as stored in the original repository, followed by a unique identifier
    • NAME: The author as stored in the original repository

    To map authors from the original repository to an email address and name, create a new CSV file with the columns ID,(ignored),GIT_EMAIL,GIT_NAME. You can use this CSV file to replace the author information for anything by "ID" with "GIT_EMAIL" and "GIT_NAME".

    For example, if you want to map the original author ID of octocat@111111-2222-3333-4444-55555555555 to a new user with the email address of octocat@github.com and name of The Octocat, the CSV file should include the line:

    octocat@111111-2222-3333-4444-55555555555, ,octocat@github.com,The Octocat

  4. Rewrite the authors and branches using the CSV file:

    git-import-rewrite --flavor hg --authors /PATH/AUTHORS-MAP-FILE.csv /PATH/REPO-NAME.git

  5. If you haven't yet, create a new empty repository on GitHub Enterprise Server.

  6. Change the current working directory to your local repository.

  7. Push the imported repository to GitHub Enterprise Server:

    git push --mirror PUSH-URL-ON-GITHUB-ENTERPRISE

Importing projects from Subversion

  1. SSH into your GitHub Enterprise Server instance. If your instance comprises multiple nodes, for example if high availability or geo-replication are configured, SSH into the primary node. If you use a cluster, you can SSH into any node. Replace HOSTNAME with the hostname for your instance, or the hostname or IP address of a node. For more information, see "Accessing the administrative shell (SSH)."

    Shell
    ssh -p 122 admin@HOSTNAME

  2. Make a raw clone of the project using the command below, specifying the URL of the source project, and a path to a temporary repository:

    $ git-import-svn-raw SVN-CLONE-URL /PATH/REPO-NAME.git
# Creates a new repository with one or more Git refs in "refs/import/" in the specified path.

  3. Review the comma-separated (CSV) file in /PATH/REPO-NAME.git/git-import/raw-authors.csv. It should contain these columns:

    • ID: The author as stored in the original repository, followed by a unique identifier
    • NAME: The author as stored in the original repository

    To map authors from the original repository to an email address and name, create a new CSV file with the columns ID,(ignored),GIT_EMAIL,GIT_NAME. You can use this CSV file to replace the author information for anything by "ID" with "GIT_EMAIL" and "GIT_NAME".

    For example, if you want to map the original author ID of octocat@111111-2222-3333-4444-55555555555 to a new user with the email address of octocat@github.com and name of The Octocat, the CSV file should include the line:

    octocat@111111-2222-3333-4444-55555555555, ,octocat@github.com,The Octocat

  4. Rewrite the authors and branches using the CSV file:

    git-import-rewrite --flavor svn --authors /PATH/AUTHORS-MAP-FILE.csv /PATH/REPO-NAME.git

  5. If you haven't yet, create a new empty repository on GitHub Enterprise Server.

  6. Change the current working directory to your local repository.

  7. Push the imported repository to GitHub Enterprise Server:

    git push --mirror PUSH-URL-ON-GITHUB-ENTERPRISE

Importing projects from Team Foundation Version Control

  1. SSH into your GitHub Enterprise Server instance. If your instance comprises multiple nodes, for example if high availability or geo-replication are configured, SSH into the primary node. If you use a cluster, you can SSH into any node. Replace HOSTNAME with the hostname for your instance, or the hostname or IP address of a node. For more information, see "Accessing the administrative shell (SSH)."

    Shell
    ssh -p 122 admin@HOSTNAME

  2. Make a raw clone of the project using the command below, specifying the URL of the source project, and a path to a temporary repository:

    $ git-import-tfs-raw TEAM-FOUNDATION-CLONE-URL /PATH/REPO-NAME.git
# Creates a new repository with one or more Git refs in "refs/import/" in the specified path.

  3. Review the comma-separated (CSV) file in /PATH/REPO-NAME.git/git-import/raw-authors.csv. It should contain these columns:

    • ID: The author as stored in the original repository, followed by a unique identifier
    • NAME: The author as stored in the original repository

    To map authors from the original repository to an email address and name, create a new CSV file with the columns ID,(ignored),GIT_EMAIL,GIT_NAME. You can use this CSV file to replace the author information for anything by "ID" with "GIT_EMAIL" and "GIT_NAME".

    For example, if you want to map the original author ID of octocat@111111-2222-3333-4444-55555555555 to a new user with the email address of octocat@github.com and name of The Octocat, the CSV file should include the line:

    octocat@111111-2222-3333-4444-55555555555, ,octocat@github.com,The Octocat

  4. Rewrite the authors and branches using the CSV file:

    git-import-rewrite --flavor tfs --authors /PATH/AUTHORS-MAP-FILE.csv /PATH/REPO_NAME.git

  5. If you haven't yet, create a new empty repository on GitHub Enterprise Server.

  6. Change the current working directory to your local repository.

  7. Push the imported repository to GitHub Enterprise Server:

    git push --mirror PUSH-URL-ON-GITHUB-ENTERPRISE

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