A personal token can be used as delegated authorization from your GitHub account. Let's get started:
- You create one via https://github.com/settings/tokens:
- Make sure you set a meaningful token description and choose the repo scope only. We want the GitLab importer to access these objects:
- Once the token has been created, make sure to record the token somewhere because it won't be shown again, and losing it means that you have to recreate it:
You now have a GitHub token and can choose to use it directly in the GitLab web interface.