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diff --git a/doc/user/project/settings/import_export.md b/doc/user/project/settings/import_export.md index 52e064ef66e..662d7e70910 100644 --- a/doc/user/project/settings/import_export.md +++ b/doc/user/project/settings/import_export.md @@ -45,6 +45,8 @@ Note the following: a maintainer or administrator role in the group where the exported project lives. - Project members with the [Owner role](../../permissions.md) are imported as Maintainers. - Imported users can be mapped by their public email on self-managed instances, if an administrative user (not an owner) does the import. + Additionally, the user must be an existing member of the namespace, or the user can be added as a +member of the project for contributions to be mapped. Otherwise, a supplementary comment is left to mention that the original author and the MRs, notes, or issues are owned by the importer. - For project migration imports performed over GitLab.com Groups, preserving author information is @@ -217,7 +219,7 @@ GitLab.com may have [different settings](../../gitlab_com/index.md#importexport) ## Troubleshooting -### Import workaround for large repositories +### Import workaround for large repositories [Maximum import size limitations](#import-the-project) can prevent an import from being successful. @@ -225,7 +227,7 @@ If changing the import limits is not possible, the following local workflow can be used to temporarily reduce the repository size for another import attempt. -1. Create a temporary working directory from the export: +1. Create a temporary working directory from the export: ```shell EXPORT=<filename-without-extension> @@ -238,9 +240,11 @@ reduce the repository size for another import attempt. # Prevent interference with recreating an importable file later mv project.bundle ../"$EXPORT"-original.bundle mv ../"$EXPORT".tar.gz ../"$EXPORT"-original.tar.gz + + git switch --create smaller-tmp-main ``` -1. To reduce the repository size, +1. To reduce the repository size, work on this `smaller-tmp-main` branch: [identify and remove large files](../repository/reducing_the_repo_size_using_git.md) or [interactively rebase and fixup](../../../topics/git/git_rebase.md#interactive-rebase) to reduce the number of commits. @@ -252,7 +256,7 @@ reduce the repository size for another import attempt. git gc --prune=now --aggressive # Prepare recreating an importable file - git bundle create ../project.bundle <default-branch-name> + git bundle create ../project.bundle smaller-tmp-main cd .. mv project/ ../"$EXPORT"-project cd .. @@ -268,5 +272,5 @@ reduce the repository size for another import attempt. 1. Update the imported repository's [branch protection rules](../protected_branches.md) and its [default branch](../repository/branches/default.md), and - delete the temporary, `smaller-…` branch, and + delete the temporary, `smaller-tmp-main` branch, and the local, temporary data. |