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description: "Import a repository from another server"
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# gt repo migrate

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Import a repository from another server

## Synopsis

```text
Import a repository from a Git URL, or from another forge with --service (which can also copy
issues, pull requests, releases and more). A private source needs --auth-token or --auth-user and
--auth-password. --mirror creates a pull mirror instead. The name defaults to the last segment of
the URL.
```

```
gt repo migrate [<clone-url>] [flags]
```

## Examples

```
# Import a public Git repository
$ gt repo migrate https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea.git

# Mirror a repository into an organization every 8 hours
$ gt repo migrate https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea.git --owner acme --mirror --mirror-interval 8h

# Import a GitHub repository with its issues and pull requests
$ gt repo migrate https://github.com/acme/tool --service github --issues --pull-requests --auth-token-file token.txt
```

## Options

```
      --auth-password string        Source password (prefer file input)
      --auth-password-file string   Read source password from file or -
      --auth-token string           Source API token (prefer file input)
      --auth-token-file string      Read source API token from file or -
      --auth-user string            Source authentication username
  -d, --description string          Repository description
  -h, --help                        help for migrate
      --issues                      Copy issues
      --labels                      Copy labels
      --lfs                         Copy LFS objects
      --lfs-endpoint string         Source LFS endpoint
      --milestones                  Copy milestones
      --mirror                      Create a pull mirror
      --mirror-interval string      Mirror interval, for example 8h (0 turns off periodic sync)
      --name string                 Destination repository name (default: the source's name)
      --owner string                Destination user or organization (default: your account)
      --private                     Make the imported repository private
      --pull-requests               Copy pull requests
      --releases                    Copy releases
      --server-path string          Absolute source Git repository path on the Gitea server (requires server permission)
      --service string              Source service {git|gitea|gitlab|gogs|github} (default "git")
      --timeout duration            Maximum migration request duration; Gitea may continue an import after cancellation (default 10m0s)
      --wiki                        Copy wiki
```

## Options inherited from parent commands

```
      --cwd directory       Working directory for repository discovery
      --debug               Log the method, URL, status, and duration of each HTTP request to stderr
      --host URL            Gitea instance URL, including any base path
      --interactive         Allow prompts with machine output
  -q, --jq expression       Filter JSON output using a jq expression; implies --json
      --json fields[="*"]   Output JSON with the specified comma-separated fields, or all fields
      --no-input            Disable prompts and implicit editor/browser interactions
      --remote remote       Git remote used for repository discovery
  -R, --repo OWNER/REPO     Select a repository as OWNER/REPO or URL
      --sudo user           Perform API requests as this user (requires an administrator account)
      --user name           Account name on the selected instance
  -y, --yes                 Accept confirmations without prompting
```

## SEE ALSO

* [gt repo](../repo/index.md): Work with Gitea repositories