Migrating from GitHub to Azure GitRepos

Question

I am currently using GitHub. We recently added Azure CI/CD, and got to know that we can use Azure GitRepos as well instead of GitHub for free.

What all things will be maintained during this transition? e.g. versioning history / pull requests etc.. Or I will loose everything except the code :P

Thanks!

Answer 1

Azure Git Repos uses the same technology as Github, so you can keep versioning history, but pull requests won't move, check this answer. That said you can use git clone --mirror https://repoUrl to copy your repository and branches including history.

You can read about Mirroring a repository in another location.

IMO before you delete anything try to make POC on one repo and see how things work and make a decision on everything else.

More info regarding PR part:

• ! [remote rejected] errors after mirroring a git repository
• GitHub clone from pull request?