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Show HN: CLI to GitHub's Migration API - export all repo metadata

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Post by jn » Wed, Feb 24, 2016, 6:46 PM UTC

Show HN: CLI to GitHub's Migration API - export all repo metadata
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Re: Show HN: CLI to GitHub's Migration API - export all repo metadata

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Post by jn » Wed, Feb 24, 2016, 7:02 PM UTC

I was in the middle of writing a script to pull down all the metadata from a GitHub repository when I stumbled upon their Migrations API[1]. Designed for moving organizations to GitHub enterprise, this feature creates an archive with everything in a set of repos: issues, pull requests, git repo, wiki, comments, attachments to comments, milestones, etc. It's in preview with no UI, and afaik no existing client library supports it, so I hacked together a quick tool to make it easy to use.

[1] https://developer.github.com/v3/migration/migrations/

Re: Show HN: CLI to GitHub's Migration API - export all repo metadata

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Post by jn » Wed, Feb 24, 2016, 7:03 PM UTC

jn wrote: post #2

I was in the middle of writing a script to pull down all the metadata from a GitHub repository when I stumbled upon their Migrations API[1]. Designed for moving organizations to GitHub enterprise, this feature creates an archive with everything in a set of repos: issues, pull requests, git repo, wiki, comments, attachments to comments, milestones, etc. It's in preview with no UI, and afaik no existing client library…

> and afaik no existing client library supports it

I spoke too soon: seems like https://github.com/octokit/octokit.rb supports it