Use tool just for export (to migrate something else than DevOps)

[sbreit-tomra]

Hi everyone,

I'm looking into migrating Azure DevOps projects to GitLab. I haven't found a direct path for this and I'm well aware that this tool is for Azure DevOps to Azure DevOps only.

My biggest issue is the lack of proper export of work items with "any other solution", especially comments and attachments. I don't need to migrate code and probably PRs not either.

My hope is that I can somehow export all data in a structured way so that I could create a script that would use the GitLab API.

Is there an easy way to achieve this using the Azure DevOps migration tools? On that note, how do migration tools extract things like attachments or comments?

Thanks

Best regards,
Steffen

[MrHinsh]

Its all API work. You can access all of the data in the Azure DevOps API and then write to the Gitlab API.

I ont have ay tools around that.