Gitlab to TFS migration of Android project

Question

I have an android project in GitLab with multiple branches. I want to clone the repo in TFS with full history. I did not get any article which I clearly told about the process. Please suggest any way.

Answer 1

You can import your GitLab repository into the project on your TFS server.

1. Directly import the repository:

   This will automatically create a new repository with the same name on TFS server, and import all the branches and history from the GitLab repository.

   

2. Import to an empty repository:

   If you have created an empty repository into the project on your TFS server, you can see the "Import a repository" section on the page of this empty repository. Click the "Import" button to import your GitLab repository. This also will import all branches and history from the GitLab repository.

   

To view more details, you can see "Import a Git repo".

[UPDATE]

If your TFS server is TFS 2017 RTM or earlier, the "Import repository" feature is not supported on these older versions. You need to manually import the repository. See "Manually import a repo".

For example:

# Clone the source repo to a local folder
git clone --bare http://tfs2015:8080/tfs/DefaultCollection/BrightProj/_git/MyRepo

cd MyRepo.git

# Create the target repo on TFS server

# Push the local repository to the target repo
git push --mirror http://tfs2017:8080/tfs/DefaultCollection/BrightProj/_git/MyRepo