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Reminder to all repository users: Please do not add , commit and push any data files to your remote git repositories. The disk space the Git server is limited, it wasn't dimensioned to host anything else than code. Solely your code files need versioning. The data inputs/outputs don't. A good idea is to do "git add" individually on each file you want to commit, to avoid versioning unwanted content.

GitHub import

Note:

  • Introduced in GitLab 9.1.
  • You need a personal access token in order to retrieve and import GitHub projects. You can get it from: https://github.com/settings/tokens
  • You also need to pass an username as the second argument to the rake task which will become the owner of the project.

To import a project from the list of your GitHub projects available:

# Omnibus installations
sudo gitlab-rake import:github[access_token,root,foo/bar]

# Installations from source
bundle exec rake import:github[access_token,root,foo/bar] RAILS_ENV=production

In this case, access_token is your GitHub personal access token, root is your GitLab username, and foo/bar is the new GitLab namespace/project that will get created from your GitHub project. Subgroups are also possible: foo/foo/bar.

To import a specific GitHub project (named foo/github_repo here):

# Omnibus installations
sudo gitlab-rake import:github[access_token,root,foo/bar,foo/github_repo]

# Installations from source
bundle exec rake import:github[access_token,root,foo/bar,foo/github_repo] RAILS_ENV=production