Issue Attachments do not migrate on Gitea to Gitea migration

[themikemayer]

Gitea Version

1.15.6 built with GNU Make 4.1, go1.16.9

Git Version

2.33.1.windows.1

Operating System

Windows Server 2022

How are you running Gitea?

Windows Service

Database

PostgreSQL

Can you reproduce the bug on the Gitea demo site?

No

Log Gist

No response

Description

We have the issue of attachments not being migrated from 1 Gitea repository (1.15.6) to Gitea (1.15.6).

Looking into the go code, it appears there is no such code implemented to carry attachments over. That should be verified.

Screenshots

Failed migration on try.gitea.io:

Images as they appear after the migration:

[themikemayer]

@lunny Hey, thanks for classifying the issue. Is there any comment on this? We are still migrating from an "old" Gitea server to a "new" one and missing all the attachements.

[lunny]

This is a missed feature when migrating from Gitea to Gitea.

[themikemayer]

This is a missed feature when migrating from Gitea to Gitea.

Any feedback on this issue to be implemented going forward?

[wxiaoguang]

There is a workaround, you could just copy all data from old server to new. The migration is not an accurate 1-to-1 copy, it might lose something.

[6543]

#14601 is the first step in this direction ...

[mattbk]

Do attachments migrate from GitLab to Gitea?

[6543]

they should but that's unrelated question ... I would suggest to use the chat for such

[wxiaoguang]

I have done my migration from GitLab to Gitea (1.15~1.16), the attachments were not migrated.

There could be a manual workaround method: copy the attachments from GitLab to a directory, and serve them correctly by a HTTP server like nginx.