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Running the import

The GitLab rake task can import a single project or multiple projects at once. It is invoked from the command line, so you need administrator access to the machine where the GitLab application is running.

When specifying a GitHub repository as the fourth argument to the rake task, you can directly import it.

To import a specific GitHub project (named joustie/github_repo here), do the following:

• Omnibus installations:

sudo gitlab-rake "import:github[<personal_access_token>,<gitlab user>,<namespace/project>,<source_namespace/github_repo>]"

• Installations from source:

bundle exec rake "import:github[<personal_access_token>,<gitlab user>,<namespace/project>,<source_namespace/github_repo>]" RAILS_ENV=production

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