The repository must be accessible over HTTP(S). If it is not publicly accessible, you can add authentication information to the URL: <code>https://username:password@gitlab.company.com/group/project.git</code>.
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The import will time out after 4 minutes. For big repositories, use a clone/push combination.
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To migrate an SVN repository, check out #{link_to"this document","http://doc.gitlab.com/ce/workflow/migrating_from_svn.html"}.