Submitted 9 hours ago by witten@lemmy.world to selfhosted@lemmy.world
The time to do this was before the hard fork.
The easy way to do this is make your user(s) and use Forgejo’s migration functions. Why would you muddy this up like this? Just nuke and pave, it would take a tenth of the time and be a hell of a lot less chancy in their long term.
The best time to do was before the hard fork. The second best time was was, well, now. Also, I am the user(s) of this former Gitea instance, just in terms of who owns the repos on it. And like I said above, I didn’t want to lose all of the data that the built-in migration feature wouldn’t migrate.
Using an LLM to do a database migration is like asking your neighbour’s kid to file your taxes.
Lol that’s a good idea… I hate doing taxes!
And you love going to jail for gross tax fraud?
Yes. But this is a lot. It may be easier to use Forgejo’s built in migration tools, to copy over repositories along with their issues and other info. You would have to rebuild the admin parts of the site, like “organizations” and user privileges. (Well if you are using oauth and mapping users from oautb groups then you don’t…). And I don’t know if it’s automated for a many, many repos. But it’s just a click click click in the gui.
I remember there was a tool, I think it was related to forgefed, that could do batch repo migrations via the cli. I can’t find it anymore though.
That would be ideal if it worked, yeah. But personally I wouldn’t want to manually recreate the bits that it didn’t support migrating. I realize everyone’s instance and situation is different.
Literally
Forgejo past 10.0.x is not compatible with Gitea’s database schema. Have you tried it?
I’m staying with Gitea. They’ve created the Ltd. so they can sell professional support as most businesses will want a proper invoice. I don’t see anything wrong with that. Also, ForgeJo was promising federation which is still a WIP several years later. And, the one time I’ve tried ForgeJo it shit itself when I’ve added an emoji to my username. For some reason Gitea didn’t have any problem with that.
If you are not a Gitea customer, you are not being informed of security updates in a timely manner:
Gitea repeatedly makes choices that leave Gitea admins exposed to known vulnerabilities during extended periods of time. For instance Gitea spent resources to undergo a SOC2 security audit for its SaaS offering while critical vulnerabilities demanded a new release. Advance notice of security releases is for customers only.
forgejo.org/compare-to-gitea/#security
Also, ForgeJo was promising federation which is still a WIP several years later.
Oh no, it doesn’t do the big feature™. I guess it’s unusable now.
I wish people would realize that software still works and is excellent even without the various flagship features. I use Kubernetes on a single node. I know there are people who use matrix without federation and e2ee because it’s actually a really good chat app, it just struggles with the performance demands of federation, and the e2ee ux isn’t quite there yet.
Personally, I think it’s great to have multiple options in this space. I think we can all agree that self-hosting (or using Forgejo/Gitea on a smaller platform, e.g. Codeberg) is preferable to centralizing absolutely everything on Microsoft GitHub.
Thanks for writing this up. I went through the same migration last year and can confirm — it is not as smooth as “just swap the binary” anymore since the hard fork.
A few extra tips that saved me headaches:
pg_dump if you are on Postgres, or just copy the SQLite file.Overall though, Forgejo has been great post-migration. More responsive to community issues and the federation work they are doing is exciting.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 hour ago
There’s a better way
Start with the last Forgejo version to be compatible with with Gitea and then slowly upgrade Forgejo one version at a time. This should be trivial to do and can be scripted easily.
witten@lemmy.world 27 minutes ago
I don’t understand. How would that help switching from a Gitea 1.25.x instance?