At GitLab we indeed have an importer for GitHub issues (so you can import repos, pull requests and wikis in one go). But issues in a git repo would be awesome. My thoughts on this are in <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.com&#x2F;gitlab-org&#x2F;gitlab-ce&#x2F;issues&#x2F;4084" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.com&#x2F;gitlab-org&#x2F;gitlab-ce&#x2F;issues&#x2F;4084</a>