I’m in the research phase to migrate all our Azure Devops repositories to GitLab, there are hundreds of repositories… According to the GitLab documentation, I can use the option of a manifest.xml file, the example structure is very basic, I have tried to use it but I always get an error, no details.
Where can I get a complete example of mass import of repositories, making use of the manifest file?
Repositories aren´t public, so, we will need autentication, how can i do?
Finally work for me. This is because the import process had been failed in authentication to read from an Azure DevOps private repo and we should authenticate against [Personal Access Token] of our Azure DevOps accounts.
Here is the correct manifest.xml which worked for me during the test.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<manifest>
<remote name="AzureDevOps"
fetch=".."
review="https://username:personalAccessToken@YourAzureDevOpsOrgName.visualstudio.com" />
<default revision="main"
remote="AzureDevOps"
sync-j="4"/>
<project path="GitLabProject1" name="TheProjectName/_git/Repo1" groups="TestMigrationManifest"/>
</manifest>