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jeffwidman / bitbucket-issue-migration

A small script for migrating repo issues from Bitbucket to GitHub
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Add note to Readme about maximum size per imported issue is 1MB #17

Closed sertel closed 8 years ago

sertel commented 9 years ago

Hi,

I tried to migrate a rather large project from bitbucket to github with your script but eventually had to give up because the script kept failing with a 403 FORBIDDEN.

I found out that the problem was not related to access rights but was due to the fact that the comments attached to some of the issues that I tried to migrate were quite big. (I always assign change sets to issues.) For these comments the according function in push_issue just failed and leaves the issue created but with only a portion of the comments added.

Maybe you can add some support for that but right now the script just can not migrate large issues which is a blocker and forced me to give up on migrating to github.

Cheers, Sebastian

jeffwidman commented 8 years ago

New project maintainer here, so I'm still coming up to speed.

Were the 403 issues from bitbucket or github?

If the problems were github side, then #25 did a major overhaul that switched from using pygithub3 to the new Github import API--possibly this new API supports large issues, I don't know.

Could you try it and let me know if this is still an issue?

jeffwidman commented 8 years ago

Actually looks like the maximum request size is 1MB according to here: https://gist.github.com/jonmagic/5282384165e0f86ef105

Using the import API gives us a bunch of niceties like avoiding rate limiting, so I don't expect to switch away from it anytime soon.

We're already doing one request per issue, rather than batching multiple issues into a single request, so we can't do any better on this unfortunately than the 1MB limit.

I would like to add a note to the Readme though