--- title: Mirroring a Gitlab project to Github | daily.dev description: Step-by-step guide to mirror a GitLab repository to GitHub using SSH deploy keys and a post-receive hook. Covers granting write access via a deploy key,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/mirroring-a-gitlab-project-to-github-deibmfm42 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Mirroring a Gitlab project to Github | daily.dev og:description: Step-by-step guide to mirror a GitLab repository to GitHub using SSH deploy keys and a post-receive hook. Covers granting write access via a deploy key,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/mirroring-a-gitlab-project-to-github-deibmfm42 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/dEIbmfM42.png og:image:alt: Mirroring a Gitlab project to Github og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Mirroring a Gitlab project to Github **[Sam McLeod](https://daily.dev/sources/smcleod)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Step-by-step guide to mirror a GitLab repository to GitHub using SSH deploy keys and a post-receive hook. Covers granting write access via a deploy key, creating a custom post-receive hook that auto-pushes to GitHub on every commit, and configuring GitHub as a remote with mirror mode in the GitLab repo's git config. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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