gh-migrations

Export all of an organization's GitHub data using the (in preview) Migrations API

Create a migration and then download the archive, containing each repository's:

• .git directory
• Wiki (as git repo)
• Issues
• Pull Requests
• Comments
• Releases
• Milestones
• Events (e.g. issue closed then reopened)
• Attachments (e.g. images in comments)

Note This is a temporary hack until the Migrations API comes out of preview and GitHub presumably provide a proper UI for it. It's an an extremely rough-and-ready tool: no tests, no error handling.

Installation

Requires node.js (>= 4.0)

$ npm install -g gh-migrations

Configuration

The tool can be configured using options on the command-line, or in ~/.gh.json (as for node-gh)

{
  "github_token": "e72e16c7e42f292c6912e7710c838347ae178b4a",
  "default_org": "octokit"
}

OAuth Token

This is the token used to access the GitHub API. You'll need to create a new personal access token with repo scope. You can set the token using the --token option on the command-line, or as "github_token" in ~/.gh.json

Organization

Migrations are created in the scope of a GitHub Organization. You can set the organization name using the --org option on the command-line, or as "default_org" in ~/.gh.json

Usage

Create a new migration, specifying the list of repositories to include. Repository names need to be the full name (i.e. of the form {user}/{repo})

$ gh-migrations create octokit/octokit.net octokit/go-octokit octokit/octokit.rb
Migration 4797
  State:   pending
  Created: Mon Nov 8 12:25:35 2016 +0000
  Updated: Mon Nov 8 12:25:36 2016 +0000
  Repositories:
    octokit/octokit.net
    octokit/go-octokit
    octokit/octokit.rb

View the list of existing migrations

$ gh-migrations list
┌──────────┬───────────┬─────────────────┬────────────────────────────────────┐
│ ID       │ State     │ Updated         │ Repositories                       │
├──────────┼───────────┼─────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────┤
│ 4797     │ exporting │ 1 minute ago    │ octokit/octokit.net                │
│          │           │                 │ octokit/go-octokit                 │
│          │           │                 │ octokit/octokit.rb                 │
├──────────┼───────────┼─────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────┤
│ 4791     │ exported  │ 9 hours ago     │ octokit/octokit.py                 │
└──────────┴───────────┴─────────────────┴────────────────────────────────────┘

Once the migration state changes to exported, you can download the archive:

$ gh-migrations download 4797 > gh4797.tar.gz

Library

This tool can also be used as a node module to access the Migrations API.

The library uses ES6 generators and co to emulate ES7 async/await.

Api = require("gh-migrations")

api = new Api(token)
migrations = api.migrations("octokit")

co ->
  migration = yield migrations.create([ "octokit/octokit.objc" ])
  console.log migration.state # pending

  # later
  list = yield migrations.findAll()
  migration = _.find(list, (m) -> m.id is migration.id)
  console.log migration.state # exporting

  # later still
  migration = yield migrations.get(migration.id)
  console.log migration.state # exported

  migrations.download(migration.id)
    .pipe(fs.createWriteStream("out.tar.gz"))