Migrating All The Github Projects

on April 9, 2020

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Recently we had a requirement to migrate repos from one github organization to another. Since we had 100+ projects, manual migration would have taken some considerable amount of time. So we decided to automate the repos migration with some good old shell scripts!

Creating github token

Open github settings and create a new token. Your personal token will have access to your Org as well as personal projects.

Clone all the repo’s in your current Github Org.

curl -sS -H "Authorization: token yourgithubtokenFromPresentOrg" https://api.github.com/orgs/yourPresentOrgName/repos?per_page=200 \
	| jq -r '.[].svn_url' \
	| while read svn_url; \
	do git clone "https://${svn_url##*://}"; done

Create an empty projects on your new Github Org

for d in ./*; do
  curl -sS -H "Authorization: token yourgithubtokenFromNewOrg" -X POST https://api.github.com/orgs/yourNewOrgName/repos \
  -d  "{\"name\":\"${d/.\//}\",\"private\":true,\"has_issues\":true,\"has_wiki\":true,\"has_projects\":true}"
done;

Change the remote git origin to new Org and push all the repos cloned from previous org

for d in ./*; do
  if [ -d "${d}" ]; then
    echo {$d};
    cd ${d};
    git remote set-url origin git@github.com:yourNewOrgName/${d/.\//}.git;
    git push;
    cd ..;
  fi
done

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