howto/git.md

@@ -272,7 +272,8 @@ This is the part you need to do as a user to move to GitLab:
  3. [file a ticket with TPA](https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/issues/new) to request a redirection. make sure
     you mention both the path to the gitolite and GitLab repositories
 
-That's it, you are done! The remaining steps will be executed by TPA.
+That's it, you are done! The remaining steps will be executed by
+TPA. (Note, if you are TPA, see the next section.)
 
 Note that you can migrate multiple repositories at once by following
 those steps multiple times. In that case, create a single ticket for
@@ -315,9 +316,26 @@ redirections in the Git web interfaces, and document the change in
 Gitolite.
 
 WARNING: it assumes the repository has already been migrated! If you
-are migrating a TPA repository, *do* make sure to first follow the
-above procedure as the procedure below doesn't do anything to actually
-mirror or archive the repository to GitLab (yet).
+are migrating a TPA repository, or migrating a third party repository,
+you can do the actual migration with this command:
+
+    fab gitlab.create-project \
+        -p $GITLAB_PROJECT \
+        --name "$GITLAB_PROJECT_NAME" \
+        --import-url https://git.torproject.org/$GITOLITE_REPO.git \
+        --description "Archive from Gitolite: $GITOLITE_DESCRIPTION"
+
+If the repository is to be archived in GitLab, also provide the
+`--archive` flag.
+
+For example, this is an actual run:
+
+    fab gitlab.create-project \
+        -p tpo/tpa/dip \
+        --name "dip" \
+        --import-url https://git.torproject.org/admin/services/gitlab/dip.git \
+        --archive \
+        --description "Archive from Gitolite: Ansible recipe for running dip from debian salsa" 
 
 The procedure is this simple two-step process: