Move all your repositories from GitLab to Gitea automatically

Migrates every repository in a GitLab group to a Gitea organization without manual re-uploading.

How the work actually flows

It repeats. Repeats moves to the next repository.

Pattern: Structured Loop (21)

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Build size
Standard

A mid-size build with several tools working together.

Business functions
DevOps & IT Operations
Connects
GitLabGitea

The problem it solves

Switching source control platforms means moving every repository by hand, one at a time, and making sure nothing gets skipped or duplicated along the way. For a team with dozens of projects, that manual migration can eat up an entire day.

Who it fits

Engineering teams and IT admins moving their codebase from GitLab to a self-hosted Gitea instance.

How it works

  1. You start the migration and point it at your GitLab group and Gitea organization
  2. The system checks each GitLab project against your Gitea organization to avoid duplicates
  3. It triggers Gitea's built-in migration tool for every remaining repository
  4. Each migration runs one at a time until the full group is copied over
What you get

Repositories moved without a single manual re-upload

Every GitLab repository lands safely in your new Gitea organization without anyone re-uploading a single project.

What you get

A complete, duplicate-free copy of your GitLab repositories in Gitea.

What you need

A GitLab account with a personal access token and a Gitea account with an access token.

We can build this. But should you?

The hard question is not how to build it. It is whether this is the right thing to build first.

That is what a Fractional Chief AI Officer figures out with you, before anyone writes a line of code.

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