Migrate Wiki under Gitlab to ADO Git Wiki Repo

Question

I am migrating artifacts from GitLab to ADO Git Repo, not able to find much info to migrate the Wikis under GitLab project to ADO repo.

I found below approach to do it.

Answer 1

Step 1 - Clone gitlab wiki

First to clone the Gitlab project, wiki using git clone https://<gitlab-repo-url>.wiki.git

• Note we need to include the wiki.git at the end of the url, by default the url will be .git

The above clone command will download all the wikis to the local.

Step 2: Clone ADO Git Repo wiki

Now, from ADO wiki, click the Clone wiki copy the url and use git clone https://<ado-repo-wiki-url>

• Better to create a folder and issue the clone command.

Step 3: Copy the markdown file from GitLab to ADO Repo

Now, copy the markdown file from the Gitlab cloned directory to the ADO cloned directory.

• In my case there where lots of markdown file, i created a sperate directory and copy pasted the .md files.
• The .md files had images, which also got downloaded from the Gtilab clone into uploads folder.

Step 4: Add, commit and push the changes to ADO Git Wiki Repo

Finally, from the ADO git cloned path issues git add . and git commit -m "comments" then pushed the commits using git push.

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