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Export your data

You can take everything out of Codebahn whenever you want, in one click, with no ticket. This is the half of the promise that says the door is always open.

Export an organization

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Open your org’s Settings > Export and start the export. Codebahn builds the archive in the background. When it is ready, download it from the same page; the archive is available for 24 hours, then it is deleted automatically. You can delete it yourself sooner, or re-export at any time.

To leave out the Git data, uncheck Include git repositories before you start. That exports metadata only (issues, pull requests, labels, and the rest) and produces a much smaller archive.

What’s in the archive

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A single tar.gz containing:

  • A manifest.yml describing the organization, its teams, members, and repositories.
  • Every repository’s full Git history: all branches, tags, and refs.
  • Per-repository metadata: issues, pull requests, labels, milestones, releases, topics, comments, and reviews.

Restoring it

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The per-repository metadata is compatible with Forgejo’s restore-repo command, so you can import each repository into any Forgejo or Gitea instance, ours or your own. The Git data is a standard repository; git clone it directly if that is all you need.

The archive is a plain tarball of standard formats, so you are not depending on Codebahn to read your own data later.

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