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stage: Enablement
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group: Distribution
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info: To determine the technical writer assigned to the Stage/Group associated with this page, see https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/ux/technical-writing/#assignments
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# GitHub import **(FREE SELF)**
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> [Introduced]( https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-foss/-/merge_requests/10308) in GitLab 9.1.
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To retrieve and import GitHub repositories, you need a [GitHub personal access token](https://github.com/settings/tokens).
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A username should be passed as the second argument to the Rake task,
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which becomes the owner of the project. You can resume an import
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with the same command.
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Bear in mind that the syntax is very specific. Remove any spaces within the argument block and
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before/after the brackets. Also, some shells (for example, `zsh`) can interpret the open/close brackets
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(`[]`) separately. You may need to either escape the brackets or use double quotes.
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## Caveats
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If the GitHub [rate limit](https://docs.github.com/v3/#rate-limiting) is reached while importing,
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the importing process waits (`sleep()`) until it can continue importing.
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## Importing multiple projects
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To import a project from the list of your GitHub projects available:
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```shell
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# Omnibus installations
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sudo gitlab-rake "import:github[access_token,root,foo/bar]"
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# Installations from source
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bundle exec rake "import:github[access_token,root,foo/bar]" RAILS_ENV=production
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```
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In this case, `access_token` is your GitHub personal access token, `root`
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is your GitLab username, and `foo/bar` is the new GitLab namespace/project
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created from your GitHub project. Subgroups are also possible: `foo/foo/bar`.
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## Importing a single project
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To import a specific GitHub project (named `foo/github_repo` here):
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```shell
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# Omnibus installations
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sudo gitlab-rake "import:github[access_token,root,foo/bar,foo/github_repo]"
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# Installations from source
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bundle exec rake "import:github[access_token,root,foo/bar,foo/github_repo]" RAILS_ENV=production
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```
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