move_site_code_to_github

This is the Move to your GitHub row of the site's Repository section, covered in Move a site's repository. The code moves with its full history, and Modulify keeps editing and publishing from the new repository for as long as the Modulify app can reach it. It needs a paid plan and the Transfer projects permission, and it is refused while an AI edit or a publish is running.

Without existing, Modulify creates a new repository, which only works in a GitHub organisation. With existing set to true, the code goes into a repository you already have, in an organisation or a personal account, and every branch and tag that was in it is deleted and replaced, which Modulify cannot bring back. That repository has to be one the Modulify app can reach, not archived, without protected branches and not already holding another Modulify site. See Move into an existing repository.

The response only says the copy started, with the repository in pending. Editing and publishing pause until it finishes, which usually takes a few seconds and can take minutes for a large history, so read get_site_repository until Status is connected, or failed with the reason. A copy still unfinished 45 minutes after it started is given up. A failed move leaves the site with Modulify and removes a repository Modulify created for it, while a repository you picked keeps whatever the copy had already changed. The messages are listed in If the move is refused or fails.

Inputs

Input	Type	Required	Description
projectId	string	Yes	The site id.
installationId	string	Yes	The _id of a verified GitHub account from the Installations of get_site_repository, not the number GitHub gives the installation.
repositoryName	string	No	For a new repository, its name in letters, numbers, hyphens, underscores and dots, which defaults to the subdomain of the site. With existing set to true, the name of the repository to replace in that account.
existing	boolean	No	true to replace a repository you already have instead of creating a new one. Every branch and tag already in it is deleted.