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Migrations documentation
If you're moving to GitHub from another code hosting platform or moving between GitHub products, learn how to use our migration tooling to bring your work with you.
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Planning your migration to GitHub
Learn how to plan and execute a successful migration to GitHub or between GitHub products.
About GitHub's migration tooling
GitHub provides a variety of different tooling options to support migrations to GitHub and between GitHub products.
Migration paths to GitHub
See an overview of the paths available for migration to GitHub from other products, or between GitHub products.
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About ghe-migrator
You can use ghe-migrator to transfer data from a source location (either a GitHub.com organization or a GitHub Enterprise Server instance) to a target GitHub Enterprise Server instance.
About GitHub Enterprise Importer
With GitHub Enterprise Importer, you can migrate your enterprise to GitHub Enterprise Cloud from various sources.
About GitHub's migration tooling
GitHub provides a variety of different tooling options to support migrations to GitHub and between GitHub products.
About locked repositories
Repositories can be locked to prevent changes, often for migrations.
About migrations between GitHub products
Learn which data GitHub Enterprise Importer can migrate between GitHub products.
About migrations from Bitbucket Server to GitHub Enterprise Cloud
Learn which data GitHub Enterprise Importer can migrate.
About source code imports using the command line
You can use command line tools to import source code and its revision history to GitHub.
Accessing your migration logs for GitHub Enterprise Importer
After running a migration, you should review the migration log to check for data that didn't migrate as expected.
Adding locally hosted code to GitHub
If your code is stored locally on your computer and is tracked by Git or not tracked by any version control system (VCS), you can import the code to GitHub using GitHub CLI or Git commands.
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