Bitbucket import since Gitlab 7.14: Error saving project

After clicking on import button on page https://gitlab.com/import/bitbucket/status, button is replaced by text:

Error saving project: Name can contain only letters, digits, '', '.', dash and space. It must start with letter, digit or ''.

Repository I'm trying to import is gadelat/meetnlearn-nette-test and it's name is meet'n'learn Nette test.

Related: #2241 (closed)

It sounds like the importer needs to have a name remapper for these cases.

Also, is there any reason GitLab shouldn't allow apostrophes in the project name?

/cc: @DouweM

@stanhu:

It sounds like the importer needs to have a name remapper for these cases.

Yes, it makes sense to strip out anything GitLab does not allow.

Also, is there any reason GitLab shouldn't allow apostrophes in the project name?

I guess not.

@DouweM I got a report that this is still happening on GitLab.com, and going by the screen shot the user shared, his repos do comply with our naming conventions.

Was a solution reached elsewhere for this?

@patricio Is it the same error message?

@DouweM yes, exactly the same error. Thanks for checking it.

@patricio Can you share the namespace/project names that user was running into trouble with?

@DouweM sorry for the late reply. The namespace is mrlami project: time-manager-android. And a few others in the same namespace.

Thanks for looking into it.

@patricio Those look like the project paths rather than names; is it possible the human-readable/formatted name contained illegal characters?

@roylindauer Dashes are definitely legal, we're in gitlab-ce right now :) Can you confirm both your repo path and name (they're different) only contain valid characters?

mentioned in issue #3525 (closed)

Same error here with a dot in the project name. Although I did not see any error message. Just nothing happened. Only after checking in the dev tools I found it to be the same issue.

I think this can be closed since the importer improved a lot. Please open a new issue if the error still exists.

Status changed to closed

Hi all. First: the importer is great and was really easy to use. I hit the name problem with various repositories where a path with spaces. The importer seemed to suggest the name of the project (with spaces) as a path (thus invalid). It would probably be nice for the importer to suggest the original path. My two cents.

I has this issue. The issue appears to report that there's a problem with my new project name (there wasn't), but it's actually because of how the project is named in BitBucket. My BitBucket project had a space in the name (though not the Git repo url). When I changed the BitBucket name within BitBucket to not include a space I was able to import into GitLab.com successfully.

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/cc: @vsizov

added ~12980 label

reopened

As @Goodgrove already mentioned, have to rename the project name from bitbucket to make it work.

Also the To GitLab renaming is not working as expect.
Say a repo from bitbucket namespace/SomeProject, and to GitLab namespace/some-project, after imported it is still using the same namespace/SomeProject at GitLab

Solution:

I was able to resolve the problem by renaming the repository in BitBucket without spaces, so the URL ran out of '-'.

Before: "Projects" - url: ./projetos-avulsos After: "ProjectsAvulsos" - url: ./projectsavulsos

Similar issue here, except it doesn't seem to like brackets, which I'm unable to change as my project works off source code on github, and github is fine with the brackets. scripts/zones/East_Ronfaure_[S]/mobs/Goblintrap.lua - I'm sure the [S] is the problem. Any way around this besides renaming? Renaming would be near impossible for us.

This is still an issue. When trying to import a BitBucket repo (which has a space in its name) into GitLab, it gives me the following error message:

Error saving project: Path can contain only letters, digits, '_', '-' and '.'. Cannot start with '-' or end in '.', '.git' or '.atom'.,Path can contain only letters, digits, '_', '-' and '.'. Cannot start with '-', end in '.git' or end in '.atom',Unable to save project. Error: Path can contain only letters, digits, '_', '-' and '.'. Cannot start with '-' or end in '.', '.git' or '.atom'., Path can contain only letters, digits, '_', '-' and '.'. Cannot start with '-', end in '.git' or end in '.atom'

This error message is huge! And repetitive. GitLab needs to:

1. Fix the error message. It repeats itself 4 times, and it's formatted very poorly.
2. Fix the import. The Bit Bucket repo name is "Undergraduate Thesis" and is located at https://bitbucket.org/<username>/undergraduate-thesis, and I'm trying to import it to GitLab with the name of "undergraduate-thesis". But that's not working.

@DouweM Can we schedule it?

/cc @mydigitalself

added Platform label

changed milestone to %Next 3-6 months

moved to gitlab#3797

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GitLab is moving all development for both GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition into a single codebase. The current gitlab-ce repository will become a read-only mirror, without any proprietary code. All development is moved to the current gitlab-ee repository, which we will rename to just gitlab in the coming weeks. As part of this migration, issues will be moved to the current gitlab-ee project.

If you have any questions about all of this, please ask them in our dedicated FAQ issue.

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/13855

You can also find more information here:

• https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/13304
• https://about.gitlab.com/2019/08/23/a-single-codebase-for-gitlab-community-and-enterprise-edition/

Frequently Asked Questions

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What will we do with the repository names?

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/ will become https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab, and https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce will become https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-foss.

Why rename gitlab-ce to gitlab-foss?

Using "gitlab" and "gitlab-ce" would be confusing, so we decided to rename gitlab-ce to gitlab-foss to make the purpose of this FOSS repository more clear

I created a merge requests for CE, and this got closed. What do I need to do?

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Where can I see a timeline of the remaining steps?

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/13304

Will community contributions submitted to the new "gitlab" repository be available in the new gitlab-foss repository?

Yes, these changes will be synced to gitlab-foss automatically, several times per day.

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