How can i switch from gogs to gitea with less pain?

[iddm]

Is there any manual for moving the git server from gogs to gitea? I'd like to save all my data which was created in gogs before: users, repoitories, settings, everything.

[charlesreid1]

You want this: Upgrade from Gogs

[iddm]

Thank you very much!

[iddm]

@charlesreid1 The manual is a bit outdated:

1. There is no gogs dump anymore but gogs backup. It must be run under non-root user.

2. I have this error during gitea web:

    Failed to initialize ORM engine: migrate: do migrate: Error 1146: Table 'gogs.repo_unit' doesn't exist
   

[appleboy]

@vityafx What is your gitea version?

[iddm]

@appleboy

$ ./gitea-bin --version
Gitea version 1.4.0+rc1-12-g423c642 built with: bindata, sqlite

[appleboy]

@vityafx I think you should try the v1.0 version. download from https://dl.gitea.io/gitea/

[iddm]

@appleboy why so old?

[appleboy]

You should migrate gogs to gitea v1.0 and then upgrade gitea from v1.0 to v1.4

[iddm]

@appleboy this also should be mentioned in the docs then.

[iddm]

@appleboy It works so, confirmed: migrating from gogs to 1.0 gitea and then upgrading the gitea from 1.0 to 1.4. Thanks a lot.

[appleboy]

@vityafx Nice, we should update the document.

[appleboy]

@vityafx which version do you download? v1.0.x?

[charlesreid1]

Documentation file needing updating is here: from-gogs.en-us.md, also in French and Chinese (dir).

@vityafx the first two instructions are probably the ones that need updating. Did gogs still generate gogs-dump-[timestamp].zip?

All: Does the second instruction need changing, or does it actually describe the process that was needed (downgrading to version 1.0, then back up to 1.4)?

• Create a Gogs backup with gogs dump. This creates gogs-dump-[timestamp].zip file containing all important Gogs data.
• Download the file matching the destination platform from the downloads page.

[iddm]

@appleboy 1.0.3 version :) Also, I still don't get what is gogs backup for? We don't use it later.