Transfer repo from Bitbucket to Github

Update remote repo

// Reference: http://www.blackdogfoundry.com/blog/moving-repository-from-bitbucket-to-github/
// See also: http://www.paulund.co.uk/change-url-of-git-repository

$ cd $HOME/Code/repo-directory
$ git remote rename origin bitbucket
$ git remote add origin https://github.com/mandiwise/awesome-new-repo.git
$ git push origin master

$ git remote rm bitbucket

If you're using bitbucket make sure the login is whatever it says in your https://bitbucket.org/account (not your email address) and generate an app password, that worked for me.

Give this guy a nobel prize 🙌

If you're using bitbucket make sure the login is whatever it says in your https://bitbucket.org/account (not your email address) and generate an app password, that worked for me.

What @jpgarza93 said, give the man a nobel prize! I was pulling my hair out why it failed! Worked as a charm after this comment!

If you're using bitbucket make sure the login is whatever it says in your https://bitbucket.org/account (not your email address) and generate an app password, that worked for me.

+1, tysm

+1, this did most of what I needed.

My local branch had trouble tracking after this, though that might be because I wanted to rename the trunk branch from master to main while I was doing this, so I also had to run

$ git branch -u origin/main

after setting up the new origin to get the branch to track.

Thanks!

Works nicely, but if you have e.g. 100 repos to migrate from bitbucket into GitHub, I assume this import tool can only do this one at a time? Is there an equivalent API / automated import?

At least for me, it was no longer possible to migrate using GitHub importer. Perhaps because the authentication is now using API tokens and no longer App passwords, no idea, it just throws "something went wrong" with no clear explanation of what was wrong. Resorted to as simple as

git clone <bitbucket url>
git remote add github <github url>
git push github --all
git push github --tags

In my case I just needed to migrate because of the recent email of Atlassian removing the repositories. A bit more painful for "more repositories", but surely it would be pretty easy to automate yourself, including ability to handle 100 or whatever amount of repos.