How to Migrate a Git Repository from GitHub to Bitbucket

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Post by omgbobbyg » Tue, Jul 06, 2021, 11:59 AM UTC

How to Migrate a Git Repository from GitHub to Bitbucket
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Re: How to Migrate a Git Repository from GitHub to Bitbucket

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Post by gravypod » Tue, Jul 06, 2021, 12:46 PM UTC

I'd like to send out my sympathy for any team members at companies moving to BitBucket. Good luck.

In my experience the offerings of GitLab are far better

Re: How to Migrate a Git Repository from GitHub to Bitbucket

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Post by gethub » Tue, Jul 06, 2021, 12:54 PM UTC

gravypod wrote: post #2

I'd like to send out my sympathy for any team members at companies moving to BitBucket. Good luck. In my experience the offerings of GitLab are far better

Amen.

GitLab: every thing but each thing is just okay

GitHub: some things but each thing is great

Bitbucket: some things but each is just okay

Re: How to Migrate a Git Repository from GitHub to Bitbucket

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Post by dutchbrit » Tue, Jul 06, 2021, 12:55 PM UTC

gravypod wrote: post #2

I'd like to send out my sympathy for any team members at companies moving to BitBucket. Good luck. In my experience the offerings of GitLab are far better

In our experience, BitBucket had a lot of issues the past year or so, mainly with Pipelines & hooks frequently being down (daily at some point for more than an hour at a time). They recently seem to have solved this issue - but I sometimes still have to wait a minute or 2 before a pipeline is started or merge is completed, quite frustrating. We're considering a switch to GitHub.

Ps. Interesting how a post from 1 hour ago with 4 points has managed to appear on the frontpage. Has HN changed their algorithm?

Re: How to Migrate a Git Repository from GitHub to Bitbucket

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Post by gravypod » Tue, Jul 06, 2021, 1:01 PM UTC

dutchbrit wrote: post #4

gravypod wrote: post #2

I'd like to send out my sympathy for any team members at companies moving to BitBucket. Good luck. In my experience the offerings of GitLab are far better

In our experience, BitBucket had a lot of issues the past year or so, mainly with Pipelines & hooks frequently being down (daily at some point for more than an hour at a time). They recently seem to have solved this issue - but I sometimes still have to wait a minute or 2 before a pipeline is started or merge is completed, quite frustrating. We're considering a switch to GitHub. Ps. Interesting how a post from 1 hour…

I'd recommend trying GitLab out a bit. It has a lot of cool features for multirepo companies like deployment integrations.

Self hosting isn't too bad if you want to try out the more advanced stuff.

Re: How to Migrate a Git Repository from GitHub to Bitbucket

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Post by forgotpwd16 » Tue, Jul 06, 2021, 1:05 PM UTC

There isn't anything GitHub or/and Bitbucket specific to this. That's just the procedure to copy (clone/push) a repo from one Git server to another. What about issues, PRs, actions, wiki, ...? GitHub isn't only used to host the code alone.

Re: How to Migrate a Git Repository from GitHub to Bitbucket

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Post by coding123 » Tue, Jul 06, 2021, 1:12 PM UTC

gethub wrote: post #3

gravypod wrote: post #2

I'd like to send out my sympathy for any team members at companies moving to BitBucket. Good luck. In my experience the offerings of GitLab are far better

Amen. GitLab: every thing but each thing is just okay GitHub: some things but each thing is great Bitbucket: some things but each is just okay

GL is pretty great at the following: cost, permissions and CICD.

Re: How to Migrate a Git Repository from GitHub to Bitbucket

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Post by xtracto » Tue, Jul 06, 2021, 1:17 PM UTC

forgotpwd16 wrote: post #6

There isn't anything GitHub or/and Bitbucket specific to this. That's just the procedure to copy (clone/push) a repo from one Git server to another. What about issues, PRs, actions, wiki, ...? GitHub isn't only used to host the code alone.

Right. At a previous place we migrated from Github to Gitlab, but we have to keep the GH repo for the merge request, approvals and paper trial. This for PCI and SOC2 auditing.

Re: How to Migrate a Git Repository from GitHub to Bitbucket

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Post by dmkirwan » Tue, Jul 06, 2021, 1:17 PM UTC

Ethical concerns aside*, I far preferred Github to BitBucket. Bitbucket has been incredibly unstable for the last few years that I've been using it at work. I regularly see the "We're experiencing issues..." banner when I review pull requests. We don't use bitbucket pipelines, but they seem to be the most unstable part of the product. I haven't used Gitlab in years so I can't give any up-to-date commentary on that as a solution. I've never had issues with Githbub and I quite like their UI so that will be my preference for the foreseeable future.

*I appreciate this is a big caveat

Re: How to Migrate a Git Repository from GitHub to Bitbucket

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Post by secondcoming » Tue, Jul 06, 2021, 1:18 PM UTC

gravypod wrote: post #2

I'd like to send out my sympathy for any team members at companies moving to BitBucket. Good luck. In my experience the offerings of GitLab are far better

Indeed, we moved from Bitbucket to Github and haven't looked back. I'm not huge fan of how GH deals with PR conversations, but that's a small thing.