Unlocking repositories on the target instance

1. As a site admin, SSH into your GitHub Enterprise instance:

   ssh -p 122 admin@hostname
   

2. Unlock all the imported repositories with the ghe-migrator unlock command. You'll need:

   • Your Migration GUID
   • Your access token for authentication.

     ghe-migrator unlock -g MIGRATION_GUID -u username -p TOKEN
     Unlocked octo-org/octo-project
     

Unlocking repositories on the source

Unlocking repositories from a GitHub.com organization

To unlock the repositories on a GitHub.com organization, you'll send a DELETE request to the migration unlock endpoint. You'll need:

• Your access token for authentication
• The unique id of the migration
• The name of the repository to unlock

  curl -H "Authorization: token GITHUB_ACCESS_TOKEN" -X DELETE \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.wyandotte-preview+json" \
  https://api.github.com/orgs/orgname/migrations/id/repos/repo_name/lock
  

Deleting repositories from a GitHub.com organization

After unlocking the GitHub.com organization's repositories, you should delete every repository you previously migrated using the repository delete endpoint. You'll need your access token for authentication:

curl -H "Authorization: token GITHUB_ACCESS_TOKEN" -X DELETE \
  https://api.github.com/repos/orgname/repo_name

Unlocking repositories from a GitHub Enterprise instance

1. As a site admin, sign in to your GitHub Enterprise instance at http(s)://[hostname]/login.

2. In the upper-right corner of any page, click .

3. In the search field, type the name of the repository and click Search.

4. In the search results, click the name of the repository.

5. Click Unlock.

6. Repeat this procedure for any other repositories you exported.