Can I fork a Codeplex repo to GitHub?

906 Views Asked by Ucodia At 14 December 2014 at 15:52

Simple question, is it possible to fork a Codeplex repo on my GitHub?

Thanks.

There are 3 best solutions below

Bernard Vander Beken On 28 July 2015 at 11:41 BEST ANSWER

Yes, you can use the GitHub Importer and read its documentation.

VonC On 14 December 2014 at 15:54

Yes, but you need first to clone the Codeplex repo using Git, as shown in "Using Git with CodePlex"

Then you can change the rmeote "origin", and point it the a new and empty GitHub repo that you would have created.

cd /path/to/local/clone
git remote set-url origin https://[email protected]/username/newrepo
git push --mirror

Jehy On 30 November 2016 at 11:06

If it is SVN repository, you can't use github importer, bitbucket importer, git svn, svnrdump and even git2svn (it's just incompatible and causes errors because that's not real svn but TFS) - so you can only checkout and push to github the last version of repository. Losing all history is really sad.
If you want to fork a git repository from codeplex, you can do it like with any other git repository - just like VonC described in his answer - add both origins, pull from codeplex and push to github.