How do I migrate from a private git server to Bitbucket Server without manually creating all the projects/repositories again?

[Martin Puza]

I would like to move all the repositories from our old server (gitblit) to Bitbucket Server for the JIRA integration.

Is there a way to mass-import all the repositories without manually recreating all the projects and repositories and cloning/pushing them again?

Also, is there a way to directly link our JIRA projects with Bitbucket, so I don't need to recreate all the Bitbucket projects? The link has been established, but I can only really see JIRA users.

Thanks!

[Jeff Thomas · Accepted solution]

There is the Stash Importer tool that will help accomplish part of what you're after and reduce some of the manual work.

The command line tool will take a collection of repositories on disk, create the project/repositories and then push them to Bitbucket Server. It can do this iteratively so you can refine the project/repo names for each on-disk repository. You'll need to have a clone of all the repositories you'd like to import on the same machine that the script is being run from. 

The binary is available at https://bitbucket.org/atlassianlabs/stash-importer/downloads/stash-importer-0.1-distribution.zip

There is a readme file in the binary distribution which explains how to use it.

[GabrielleJ]

* A quick search in the Atlassian Marketplace returns nothing for an "gitblit" related add-ons.

Reference: https://www.wildcardcorp.com/blog/migrating-a-lot-of-repositories-to-stash

So I guess your best way here is to create it via the BBSERV API. A quick search in google said something about a company migrating them programatically via scripts, just like this.

Reference: https://www.wildcardcorp.com/blog/migrating-a-lot-of-repositories-to-stash

[Martin Puza]

Thanks to both of you!

I managed to import our projects with a combination of both solutions.

The Stash Importer nicely created the projects and repositories, but failed actually importing those:

Failed to create Stash repository for repository "Something": Failed to create repository "Something" in project "ABC": key not found: cloneUrl

Probably some changes to the API?

Anyway, I then regexed the devil out of the import.list to fit the clone_repos script, which (after a minor alteration) nicely moved all the repositories. I think there's room for improvement (by using bare repos and mirrors), but it worked nicely.

[GabrielleJ]

Glad we can help you out