The outrage here is insane. People are acting like Microsoft have already ruined something - they've done nothing, not even had a chance to do anything.
Good. I've structured my life to avoid Microsoft, and I intend to continue doing such. This is a vote of non-confidence in Microsoft and they should realise that their reputation for abhorrent behaviour cannot be erased overnight.
The Gitlab CEO was even spamming the #movingtogitlab hashtag in that thread before his posts largely got flagged and removed. It was quite... untactful, to say the least.
Maybe I'm missing something, but this should be as easy as changing the remote.
For the git native features that works. This is for all the extra stuff (PRs, issues, wikis, etc.)
That'll get you the code, the branches, and the commit history. There can be a fair amount of metadata and other non-Git-but-still-gitlab-equivalent stuff like Issues, wikis, etc, and that's what the importer process brings over.
Yeah, this is about importing all the 'metadata' that Git doesn't host but Github does: pull requests, issues, wiki pages, releases, etc.
These features are immensely helpful for any organization or open source project and one of the main reasons that the 'centralization' of Git happened.
Github with microsoft is not the same thing, I dont like microsoft, I will migrate to Gitlab.