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Migrating git repos without metadata

Metadata, like pull requests and issues, are not part of a git repo. These features are provided by the platform that hosts your shared git repo. There are tools to migrate metadata from BitBucket, GitLab, Azure DevOps, GitHub Enterprise Server, and github.com. If tools don't exist to migrate the metadata from the platform you are using, your only option is to migrate only the git repo. To migrate a git repo without medatadata, follow the instructions below.

Pre-migration

Familiarize yourself with the pre-migration documentation here.
If you are migrating a repo that uses LFS, make sure you have git-lfs installed.

Migration

1. Clone the repo

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LFS Migration

GitHub blocks files larger than 100 MiB. Therefore, if you are migrating a repository with objects larger than 100 Mib to Github, you'll need to migrate those large objects to LFS.

A note about OS

By default, windows and mac do not have a case sensitive filesystem. For this reason, I recommend using linux for lfs migration. Also, if the lfs migration seems to take a long time, this is often due to lots of disk I/O. To speed things up, use a cloud linux instance with max disk I/O.

Before migrating to LFS

Make sure you have git-lfs installed.

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