Recent changes to GitHub Importer

GitHub Importer modified by Guillermo Cruz

Guillermo Cruz — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 20:41:35 -0000

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 Automatic ongoing import of all GitHub releases immediately after they are made is possible.  Click the lock icon to unlock the project menu, then click the gear icon next to "Files".  Select "GitHub Integration" and proceed to that form.  Just enter your GitHub username/repo and approve.

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 **Note:** GitHub does not automatically detect files added to a release after it has been published. If you want to add files to a GitHub release after it has been published you will need to create a new release. However, if the release text is edited, it should be detected and files synced.

 #### Source Code

GitHub Importer modified by Guillermo Cruz

Guillermo Cruz — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 20:40:15 -0000

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 We provide an importer to easily copy over project data from an existing GitHub project into our project hosting. We support both importing to a new project, as well as importing individual tools into an existing SourceForge project.

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GitHub Importer modified by Guillermo Cruz

Guillermo Cruz — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 20:37:03 -0000

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 We provide an importer to easily copy over project data from an existing GitHub project into our project hosting. We support both importing to a new project, as well as importing individual tools into an existing SourceForge project.

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GitHub Importer modified by Guillermo Cruz

Guillermo Cruz — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 20:36:28 -0000

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 We provide an importer to easily copy over project data from an existing GitHub project into our project hosting. We support both importing to a new project, as well as importing individual tools into an existing SourceForge project.

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GitHub Importer modified by Guillermo Cruz

Guillermo Cruz — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 20:35:45 -0000

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 We provide an importer to easily copy over project data from an existing GitHub project into our project hosting. We support both importing to a new project, as well as importing individual tools into an existing SourceForge project.

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 Start Importing

GitHub Importer modified by Guillermo Cruz

Guillermo Cruz — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 20:35:12 -0000

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 We provide an importer to easily copy over project data from an existing GitHub project into our project hosting. We support both importing to a new project, as well as importing individual tools into an existing SourceForge project.

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 Start Importing

GitHub Importer modified by SourceForge Support

SourceForge Support — Fri, 21 Jul 2023 18:26:08 -0000

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 Automatic ongoing import of all GitHub releases immediately after they are made is possible.  Click the lock icon to unlock the project menu, then click the gear icon next to "Files".  Select "GitHub Integration" and proceed to that form.  Just enter your GitHub username/repo and approve.

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+**Note:** GitHub does not automatically detect files added to a release after it has been published. If you want to add files to a GitHub release after it has been published you will need to create a new release. However, if the release text is edited, it should be detected and files synced.
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 #### Source Code

 The import process will import the git repository for the project.  See our documentation for [Git](/p/forge/documentation/Git/) for further management once the repository is imported.

GitHub Importer modified by Dave Brondsema

Dave Brondsema — Tue, 15 Mar 2022 20:46:06 -0000

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 ### Video Overview

-[[embed url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBR22miqRJs]]
+[[embed url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fE-gKiEzwVA]]

GitHub Importer modified by Dave Brondsema

Dave Brondsema — Thu, 04 Nov 2021 19:18:06 -0000

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 ### What's Next

-If you moved some or all of your project from GitHub, you'll want to let people know.  On your GitHub project, you can add a link in your README `or Wiki.
+If you moved some or all of your project from GitHub, you'll want to let people know.  On your GitHub project, you can add a link in your README or Wiki.

 ### Migration issues

GitHub Importer modified by SourceForge Support

SourceForge Support — Thu, 04 Nov 2021 18:47:06 -0000

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 ### Importing to a new SourceForge project

-If you do not already have a SourceForge account, [register one](/user/registration) and login.
+If you do not have a SourceForge account, [register one](/user/registration) and log in.

-To import to a new project, visit the [GitHub Importer](/p/import_project/github/) page. First, it will prompt you to authorize SourceForge to connect to and read from your GitHub account.  Then, enter the username and project name of the project you'd like to import, as well as the name of the SourceForge project that will be created. These will often be the same, but if the desired name is taken, you may select a different name here. You can also select what tools you'd like to import from the selected project (you can keep some parts of your project on GitHub and move some to SourceForge, if you want). You will receive an email as each tool is processed.
+To import to a new project, visit the [GitHub Importer](/p/import_project/github/) page. 
+First, it will prompt you to authorize SourceForge to connect to and read from your GitHub account.  
+Then, enter the username and project name of the project you'd like to import, as well as the name of the SourceForge project that will be created. These will often be the same, but if the desired name is taken, you may select a different name here. You can also select what tools you'd like to import from the selected project (you can keep some parts of your project on GitHub and move some to SourceForge, if you want). You will receive an email as each tool is processed.

-Once the import request is submitted, it will set your project description and homepage.  Just wait a few seconds for that, and then start configuring the rest of your SourceForge project settings.  See the standard [new SourceForge projects guide](/p/forge/documentation/Create a New Project/) for more information on these settings.
+Once the import request is submitted, it will set your project description and homepage.  Just wait a few seconds, and then start configuring the rest of your SourceForge project settings.  See the standard [new SourceForge projects guide](/p/forge/documentation/Create a New Project/) for more information on these settings.

 ### Importing to an existing SourceForge project

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 [Markdown syntax](/p/forge/documentation/markdown_syntax) for code blocks, strike-through, and ticket and commit references are different between GitHub and SourceForge's markdown dialects.  The import process will automatically convert the syntax for those.  Some formatting such as emoji is not converted at this time.

-Image references will be imported, but images or other files that are actually stored in the wiki repository will not be imported.  You can manually attach those to the appropriate wiki page.  Wiki pages within directories are not supported at this time.
+Image references will be imported, but images or other files that are stored in the wiki repository will not be imported.  You can manually attach those to the appropriate wiki page.  Wiki pages within directories are not supported at this time.

 More information on using the Wiki on SourceForge can be found in our [Wiki Documentation](/p/forge/documentation/Wiki/).

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 #### Issues/Tickets

-The "Issues" and "Pull Requests" of a GitHub project will be imported into our [Tickets](/p/forge/documentation/Tickets/) tool. Due to differences in the user databases, imported tickets will have the ticket creator and owner set to anonymous. However, the body of the ticket will include a link to the GitHub pages of both the ticket creator and the ticket owner.  If you know the SourceForge username of the owner, you can do a search for "Originally owned by: JohnDoe", click the pencil icon to edit all, and set the owner field.
+The "Issues" and "Pull Requests" of a GitHub project will be imported into our [Tickets](/p/forge/documentation/Tickets/) tool. Due to differences in the user databases, imported tickets will have the ticket creator and owner set to anonymous. However, the body of the ticket will include a link to the GitHub pages of both the ticket creator and the ticket owner.  If you know the SourceForge username of the owner, you can search "Originally owned by: JohnDoe", click the pencil icon to edit all, and set the owner field.

-Comments, attachments, labels and status changes will be imported.  Markdown formatting will be converted as appropriate (see wiki section above for details).
+Comments, attachments, labels, and status changes will be imported.  Markdown formatting will be converted as appropriate (see wiki section above for details).

 ### What's Next

-If you moved some or all of your project from GitHub, you'll want to let people know.  On your GitHub project, you can add a link in your README or Wiki.
+If you moved some or all of your project from GitHub, you'll want to let people know.  On your GitHub project, you can add a link in your README `or Wiki.

 ### Migration issues