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Ramy Gamal

Posted on May 1

Migrating Azure Devops Activity to GitHub 🔄️

#azure #github #automation #githubactions

GitHub isn’t just a place to store code anymore. For many developers, it’s a living portfolio, a snapshot of what they’re building, exploring, and learning.

Though, my GitHub profile didn’t reflect that at all. This happened when I joined a company that don't use GitHub for managing the codebase.

Most of my day-to-day work happens in a private codebase hosted on Azure DevOps. So even though I’m actively coding, shipping, and solving problems, my GitHub looked… inactive. Almost like I stopped coding altogether.

The Idea

One night, I decided to fix this.

Since I genuinely enjoy building automation scripts, I thought:
Why not automatically sync my activity from azure DevOps into my GitHub account?

So I built a small script that:

Pulls my commits from Azure DevOps (where I’m the author)
Replays them into a private GitHub repository
Runs automatically on a daily schedule

How It Works

The setup is pretty straightforward:

Uses Azure DevOps APIs to fetch commits
Filters commits by author
Pushes them into GitHub as new commits (A private repository is recommended to contain your activity)
Runs daily using GitHub Actions.

Now, my GitHub profile reflects actual activity again without changing how or where I work. 😁

The script was originally built for my own use, but it is open-source in case it’s useful to others.

If you’re working across different platforms and want a unified presence, this might help or at least spark an idea.

👉 Check it out:

Raamyy / azuredevops-commits-migrator

Bring your Azure Devops contribution history into Github!

Azure DevOps to GitHub Migration Tool

Github profile is so boring when no activity is there when you work at a company that use Azure Devops.

This project helps users automate the migration of commits and Pull Requests (PRs) from an Azure DevOps repository to a GitHub repository. It uses a GitHub workflow to automate the migration process.

Getting Started

Fork this repository
Click the Fork button in the top-right corner of this page to fork the master repository.
Go to forked repo in your repository

Add secrets:
settings -> Actions secrets and variables -> Repository secrets -> New repository secrets

PAT  # Your Azure PAT, you'll know how to get it below
USER_EMAIL  # Your GITHUB user email

USER_NAME # Your GITHUB user name

AZURE_NAME  # YOUR username on Azure

# Set this number to 1, unless you want to fetch all the previous history
DAYS_LOOKUP

# This is

…

View on GitHub

Main function

async function main() {
  if(AZURE_NAME == "") {
    console.error("AZURE_NAME is not set. Please add it to the github secrets with your Azure username. exiting...");
    return;
  }
  let COMMITS = [];
  let projects = await getProjects();
  for (let project of projects) {
    let repositories = await getRepositories(project);
    for (let repo of repositories) {
      let commits = await getCommits(project, repo.name, AZURE_NAME, repo.defaultBranch);
      COMMITS = COMMITS.concat(commits);
    }
  }
  COMMITS = COMMITS.sort(function (a, b) {
    return new Date(a.creationDate) - new Date(b.creationDate);
  });
  console.log(`got toal of ${COMMITS.length} commits`);
  generateGitCommits(COMMITS)
}