Ryan Tang ryantang
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/ Migrating Repos with Large Files to Github
Created
May 10, 2016 19:45
how to convert your repo to git-lfs and rewrite history
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| 1. When trying to migrate a repo to Github | |
| ``` | |
| git clone --bare ssh://[email protected]:2222/project-name/repo-name.git #clone a bare repo locally | |
| curl --header "Authorization: token <GITHUB API TOKEN>" --data '{"name": "repo-name", "description": "Migrated from project-name from gitserver.example.com" https://api.github.com/orgs/org-name/repos #create github repo | |
| git push --mirror [email protected]:org-name/repo-name.git | |
| ``` | |
| you'll see an error like this: |