Regarding #GitLab moving #Gitorious data to their own servers using obscure, repeatedly failing solutions over simply rsync'ing (as they likely want to integrity check all the transferred files anyway ffs!):
"<TakinOver> Their procedure just seems terribly ad-hoc. That article should scare the sh*t out of the leaders of any project or organization that is considering Gitlab's hosted solution (paid or not)."
Blog post by #GitLab describing their own weird methods: https://about.gitlab.com/2015/03/09/moving-all-your-data/