This is a small script that will migrate Bitbucket issues to a GitHub project.
It will import issues (and close them as needed) and their comments. Repositories can be public or private, owned by individuals or organizations. Labels and milestones are supported.
Requires Python 3 and the requests
library.
keyring
is an optional
dependency if you want to pull login credentials from the system keyring.
It's probably easiest to install the dependencies using Python 3's built-in
venv
tool:
$ python3 -m venv ./py3
$ source ./py3/bin/activate
$ pip3 install -r requirements.pip
On Windows, use .\py3\Scripts\activate.bat
instead of source ./py3/bin/activate
$ python3 migrate.py -h
usage: migrate.py [-h] [-bu BITBUCKET_USERNAME] [-n] [-f SKIP] [-m _MAP_USERS]
bitbucket_repo github_repo github_username
A tool to migrate issues from Bitbucket to GitHub.
positional arguments:
bitbucket_repo Bitbucket repository to pull issues from.
Format: <user or organization name>/<repo name>
Example: jeffwidman/bitbucket-issue-migration
github_repo GitHub repository to add issues to.
Format: <user or organization name>/<repo name>
Example: jeffwidman/bitbucket-issue-migration
github_username Your GitHub username. This is used only for
authentication, not for the repository location.
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-bu BITBUCKET_USERNAME, --bb-user BITBUCKET_USERNAME
Your Bitbucket username. This is only necessary when
migrating private Bitbucket repositories.
-n, --dry-run Simulate issue migration to confirm issues can be
extracted from Bitbucket and converted by this script.
Nothing will be copied to GitHub.
-f SKIP, --skip SKIP The number of Bitbucket issues to skip. Note that if
Bitbucket issues were deleted, they are already
automatically skipped.
-m _MAP_USERS, --map-user _MAP_USERS
Override user mapping for usernames, for example
`--map-user users_mapping_file.txt`. Username mapping should be
in the form of `bb_username=gh_username`, each separated by a new line.
--skip-attribution-for BB_SKIP
BitBucket user who doesn't need comments re-
attributed. Useful to skip your own comments, because
you are running this script, and the GitHub comments
will be already under your name.
--link-changesets Link changeset references back to BitBucket.
$ python3 migrate.py <bitbucket_repo> <github_repo> <github_username>
For example, to export the SQLAlchemy issue tracker to the repo https://github.com/jeffwidman/testing:
$ python3 migrate.py zzzeek/sqlalchemy jeffwidman/testing jeffwidman
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GitHub labels are created that map to the Bitbucket issue's priority, kind (bug, task, etc), component (if any, custom to each project), and version (if any). If you don't want these, just delete the new GitHub labels post-migration. (Note: GitHub limits label length to 50 characters. Labels longer than this will be truncated.)
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Milestones are transferred. If the milestone doesn't exist in GitHub, it will be created. If you don't want this, either edit the code (search for "milestone") or delete the milestones in GitHub after the migration.
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The migrated issues and issue comments are annotated with both Bitbucket and GitHub links to user who authored the comment/issue. This assumes the user reused their Bitbucket username on GitHub.
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Issue assignees are transferred, but only for explicitly mapped users (see the -m switch above).
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Within the body of issues and issue comments, hyperlinks to other issues in this Bitbucket repo will be rewritten as
#<ID>
, which GitHub will automatically hyperlink to the GitHub issue with that particular ID. This assumes that you are migrating to a GitHub repository that has no existing issues, otherwise the imported issues will have a different ID on GitHub than on Bitbucket and the links will be incorrect. If you are migrating to a GitHub repo with existing issues, just edit the code to offset the imported issue IDs by the correct amount. -
This script is not idempotent--re-running it will leave the first set of imported issues intact, and then create a duplicate set of imported issues after the first set. If you want to re-run the import, it's best to delete your GitHub repo and start over so that the GitHub issue IDs start from 1.
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The maximum allowable size per individual issue is 1MB. This limit is imposed by GitHub's Import API.
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If your GitHub account uses 2-factor authentication, to access private GitHub repositories the tool instructs you to generate a token. You will need permissions
repo
andwrite:discussion
.
Currently maintained by Jeff Widman. Originally written and open-sourced by Vitaly Babiy.