Migrating self-hosted Gogs instance to self-hosted Forgejo

migrate-gogs-to-forgejo.md

After several failed attempts to use other's scripts, I stumbled upon the following option. Worked alright for 40+ of my repos, YMMV

Migrating gogs to forgejo

• backup gogs repo with gogs backup

  • docker exec -it gogs_container_name
  • bash8698765c2e8a:/app/gogs# USER=git ./gogs backup

• copy the file and unzip the gogs-backup.zip

• extract gogs-backup/repositories.zip (has all the bare repos)

• copy them to forgejo's container /data/git/repositories/<username>

  • you may also want to run chown -R 1000:1000 /data/git/repositories/<username> post copy based on your setup

• from forge's admin panel url/admin/repos (admin settings -> code-assets -> repositories)

  • search by username
  • unadapted repositories
  • adopt each of those repos

  optional remapping of self signed gogs url to new forejo's

To map old url post upgrade, set conf/gitea/app.ini ROOT_URL to old-gogs.selfhosted.com (old url)