Below, is a quick set of commands to safely move your Bitbucket repo to Github; all while keeping history and everything.
Here's the forked Gist containing the info below if you'd like to reference that instead.
Let's Get Started
Create a new repo on Github to get started, if you haven't already.
# Change Origin git remote rename origin bitbucket # Update Repo git remote add origin https://github.com/username/awesome-new-repo.git # Push to Github (assuming you're using master) git push -u origin master # Remove Bitbucket as Remote git remote rm bitbucket