Can I fork a Codeplex repo to GitHub?

Question

Simple question, is it possible to fork a Codeplex repo on my GitHub?

Thanks.

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 28 '15 at 11:41

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Yes, you can use the GitHub Importer and read its documentation.

answered Jul 28 '15 at 11:41

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From GitHub Importer: "Imports from Codeplex's SVN bridge are not supported, because Codeplex does not support svnrdump. Please try importing from Codeplex+TFS, or maybe use svn2git." From CodePlex: "Only project members can connect to the project using TFS. Non-members may use Subversion to access the repository." I guess I'll have to clone locally and add github as a second remote, as described [here](http://lastexitcode.com/blog/2012/09/26/CloneCodePlexRepositoryToGitHub/) – drizin Dec 04 '15 at 02:12
Thanks for the clarification. – Bernard Vander Beken Dec 07 '15 at 13:53

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Nov 30 '16 at 11:06

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Yes, but you need first to clone the Codeplex repo using Git, as shown in "Using Git with CodePlex"

Then you can change the rmeote "origin", and point it the a new and empty GitHub repo that you would have created.

cd /path/to/local/clone
git remote set-url origin https://username@github.com/username/newrepo
git push --mirror

edited Nov 30 '16 at 11:06

Jehy

answered Dec 14 '14 at 15:54

VonC

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:24

If it is SVN repository, you can't use github importer, bitbucket importer, git svn, svnrdump and even git2svn (it's just incompatible and causes errors because that's not real svn but TFS) - so you can only checkout and push to github the last version of repository. Losing all history is really sad.
If you want to fork a git repository from codeplex, you can do it like with any other git repository - just like VonC described in his answer - add both origins, pull from codeplex and push to github.

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