Migrating from GitHub to Codeberg
By chimo on (updated on )Some scripts I quickly wrote to copy my GitHub repositories over to Codeberg.
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There are probably a ton of better scripts out there, but I wanted to write my own for various reasons.
It:
- Iterates through a user’s repositories.
- Ignores repositories part of an organization.
- Migrates the code and issues from GitHub to a public repo on Codeberg.
Requirements:
- github-cli - Because I couldn’t be bothered handling API pagination.
- GH_TOKEN - Environment variable holding your GitHub Personal Access Token
- CB_TOKEN - Environment variable holding your Codeberg Personal Access Token
#!/bin/sh -eu
get_repos() (
gh api -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \
-H "X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2022-11-28" /user/repos \
--jq '.[] | select(.owner.type == "User").clone_url' \
-X GET \
--paginate
)
migrate_repo() (
repo_url="${1}"
path_leaf="${repo_url##*/}"
repo_name="${path_leaf%.*}"
body=$(cat << EOF
{
"auth_token": "${GH_TOKEN}",
"clone_addr": "${repo}",
"repo_name": "${repo_name}",
"issues": true,
"private": false,
"service": "github"
}
EOF
)
curl -X POST 'https://codeberg.org/api/v1/repos/migrate' \
-H 'accept: application/json' \
-H 'content-type: application/json' \
-H "Authorization: token ${CB_TOKEN}" \
-d "${body}"
)
main() (
repos=$(get_repos)
while IFS= read -r repo
do
echo "Migrating ${repo}..."
migrate_repo "${repo}"
sleep 10
done <<EOF
$repos
EOF
)
mainRedirect
A couple of days after copying the repositories over, after ensuring everything was where it should be on Codeberg, I wrote another script to replace my GitHub repositories with a single README in each repo mentioning the move.
It:
- Iterates through a user’s repositories.
- Deletes the repository (to get rid of history, issues, etc).
- Creates and clones a repository of the same name.
- Adds a README.md pointing to the new location.
- Pushes the file over to GitHub over SSH.
Requirements:
- github-cli - Because I had it installed for the previous script
- GH_TOKEN - Environment variable holding your GitHub Personal Access Token
- Replace <cb-username> with your Codeberg username
- Replace <gh-username> with your GitHub username
#!/bin/sh -eu
get_repos() (
gh api -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \
-H "X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2022-11-28" /user/repos \
--jq '.[] | select(.owner.type == "User").clone_url' \
-X GET \
--paginate
)
main() (
repos=$(get_repos)
while IFS= read -r repo_url
do
path_leaf="${repo_url##*/}"
repo="${path_leaf%.*}"
# Delete
echo "Deleting ${repo}..."
gh repo delete "${repo}" --yes
sleep 10
# Create, clone
echo "Creating ${repo}..."
gh repo create "${repo}" \
--homepage "https://codeberg.org/<cb-username>/${repo}" \
--clone \
--public
cd "${repo}"
# Create README
sed 's/<repo>/'"${repo}"'/' ../template.md > README.md
# Push
git add .
git commit -m 'Moved'
git push git@github.com:<gh-username>/"${repo}".git master
cd ..
done <<EOF
$repos
EOF
)
mainMy template.md file looks like:
# Moved
This repository has been moved to https://codeberg.org/<cb-username>/<repo>