Migrating Azure Devops Activity to GitHub 🔄️

GitHub isn’t just a place to store code anymore. For many developers, it’s a living portfolio, a...

GitHub isn’t just a place to store code anymore. For many developers, it’s a living portfolio, a snapshot of what they’re building, exploring, and learning.

Though, my GitHub profile didn’t reflect that at all. This happened when I joined a company that don't use GitHub for managing the codebase.

Most of my day-to-day work happens in a private codebase hosted on Azure DevOps. So even though I’m actively coding, shipping, and solving problems, my GitHub looked… inactive. Almost like I stopped coding altogether.

The Idea

One night, I decided to fix this.

Since I genuinely enjoy building automation scripts, I thought: Why not automatically sync my activity from azure DevOps into my GitHub account?

So I built a small script that:

1. Pulls my commits from Azure DevOps (where I’m the author)
2. Replays them into a private GitHub repository
3. Runs automatically on a daily schedule

How It Works

The setup is pretty straightforward:

• Uses Azure DevOps APIs to fetch commits
• Filters commits by author
• Pushes them into GitHub as new commits (A private repository is recommended to contain your activity)
• Runs daily using GitHub Actions.

Now, my GitHub profile reflects actual activity again without changing how or where I work. 😁

The script was originally built for my own use, but it is open-source in case it’s useful to others.

If you’re working across different platforms and want a unified presence, this might help or at least spark an idea.

👉 Check it out: {% embed https://github.com/Raamyy/azuredevops-commits-migrator %}

Main function

async function main() {
  if(AZURE_NAME == "") {
    console.error("AZURE_NAME is not set. Please add it to the github secrets with your Azure username. exiting...");
    return;
  }
  let COMMITS = [];
  let projects = await getProjects();
  for (let project of projects) {
    let repositories = await getRepositories(project);
    for (let repo of repositories) {
      let commits = await getCommits(project, repo.name, AZURE_NAME, repo.defaultBranch);
      COMMITS = COMMITS.concat(commits);
    }
  }
  COMMITS = COMMITS.sort(function (a, b) {
    return new Date(a.creationDate) - new Date(b.creationDate);
  });
  console.log(`got toal of ${COMMITS.length} commits`);
  generateGitCommits(COMMITS)
}

If you’re interested in extending it or making it more generic, contributions are welcome. And if you have questions, feel free to reach out.

Now I joined a bit bigger company that still I am not sure of it's policies regarding similar, so my GitHub is back dead again 😭

Do you care about the activity graph, or do you prefer to keep work and personal strictly separate?"