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I recently moved my personal project from GitHub to GitLab and the whole process took me less than a minute, with a simple git remote set-url on the client side

by hudell 10y ago

I recently moved my personal project from GitHub to GitLab and the whole process took me less than a minute, with a simple git remote set-url on the client side. The future is amazing.

jobvandervoort 10y ago
That's great to hear. Would love to hear your feedback.
- hudell 10y ago
  Sure! The only reason I wasn't using GitLab before is that I had a writer working remotely on my game and I didn't know how to explain to her how to use it. So I had moved everything to GitHub and told her to use their desktop app, which makes the clone/commit/push/pull flow amazingly simple.
kh_hk 10y ago
Not wanting to diminish what GitLab is doing, but what you mention is an inherent characteristic of git itself that applies the same way to GitHub, Bitbucket and a self hosted git bare repository. Any git host should expose a git interface for it to work as a git repository.
- hudell 10y ago
  Yes, but they simplified it a lot. I just connected to github, chose the repository and clicked import. Maybe all of those services have it that way, but I'm just glad that GitLab had it.
  - kh_hk 10y ago
    That is a different case than configuring a different remote on config and pushing to another host which is what I interpreted reading your comment, my bad. Out of curiosity, does the import process include all issues, PR and comments?
    - haynes 10y ago
      almost, yes. issues, wiki, PRs and comments are imported. Afaik cross repo PRs are not supported yet. But they're working on that. :)
      - sytse 10y ago
        For sure, progress on that is in https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/15528 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/15528 (BTW labels are also imported)
  - moby 10y ago
    Have you tried using GitHub Importer for any projects? https://github.com/new/import https://github.com/new/import Let me know how it works for you; happy to provide feedback to make it easier for your purposes!

by hudell 10y ago

I recently moved my personal project from GitHub to GitLab and the whole process took me less than a minute, with a simple git remote set-url on the client side. The future is amazing.

jobvandervoort 10y ago

That's great to hear. Would love to hear your feedback.

hudell 10y ago
Sure! The only reason I wasn't using GitLab before is that I had a writer working remotely on my game and I didn't know how to explain to her how to use it. So I had moved everything to GitHub and told her to use their desktop app, which makes the clone/commit/push/pull flow amazingly simple.

kh_hk 10y ago

Not wanting to diminish what GitLab is doing, but what you mention is an inherent characteristic of git itself that applies the same way to GitHub, Bitbucket and a self hosted git bare repository. Any git host should expose a git interface for it to work as a git repository.

hudell 10y ago
Yes, but they simplified it a lot. I just connected to github, chose the repository and clicked import. Maybe all of those services have it that way, but I'm just glad that GitLab had it.
- kh_hk 10y ago
  That is a different case than configuring a different remote on config and pushing to another host which is what I interpreted reading your comment, my bad. Out of curiosity, does the import process include all issues, PR and comments?
  - haynes 10y ago
    almost, yes. issues, wiki, PRs and comments are imported. Afaik cross repo PRs are not supported yet. But they're working on that. :)
    - sytse 10y ago
      For sure, progress on that is in https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/15528 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/15528 (BTW labels are also imported)
- moby 10y ago
  Have you tried using GitHub Importer for any projects? https://github.com/new/import https://github.com/new/import Let me know how it works for you; happy to provide feedback to make it easier for your purposes!