diff --git a/app/controllers/projects/imports_controller.rb b/app/controllers/projects/imports_controller.rb
index fb8788f081..053532e528 100644
--- a/app/controllers/projects/imports_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/projects/imports_controller.rb
@@ -8,9 +8,7 @@ class Projects::ImportsController < Projects::ApplicationController
   end
 
   def create
-    @project.import_url = params[:project][:import_url]
-
-    if @project.save
+    if @project.update_attributes(import_params)
       @project.reload
 
       if @project.import_failed?
@@ -48,4 +46,8 @@ class Projects::ImportsController < Projects::ApplicationController
         return
     end
   end
+
+  def import_params
+    params.require(:project).permit(:import_url, :mirror)
+  end
 end
diff --git a/app/controllers/projects_controller.rb b/app/controllers/projects_controller.rb
index bd987f2087..0dff111075 100644
--- a/app/controllers/projects_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/projects_controller.rb
@@ -216,6 +216,7 @@ class ProjectsController < ApplicationController
       :issues_enabled, :merge_requests_enabled, :snippets_enabled, :issues_tracker_id, :default_branch,
       :wiki_enabled, :issues_template, :merge_requests_template, :visibility_level, :merge_requests_rebase_enabled,
       :import_url, :last_activity_at, :namespace_id, :avatar,
+      :mirror,
       :approvals_before_merge, :approver_ids, :reset_approvals_on_push, :merge_requests_ff_only_enabled
     )
   end
@@ -245,7 +246,7 @@ class ProjectsController < ApplicationController
     project.repository_exists? && !project.empty_repo?
   end
 
-  # Override get_id from ExtractsPath, which returns the branch and file path 
+  # Override get_id from ExtractsPath, which returns the branch and file path
   # for the blob/tree, which in this case is just the root of the default branch.
   def get_id
     project.repository.root_ref
diff --git a/app/views/shared/_import_form.html.haml b/app/views/shared/_import_form.html.haml
index 285af56ad7..6ad7765cee 100644
--- a/app/views/shared/_import_form.html.haml
+++ b/app/views/shared/_import_form.html.haml
@@ -14,3 +14,13 @@
           The import will time out after 4 minutes. For big repositories, use a clone/push combination.
         %li
           To migrate an SVN repository, check out #{link_to "this document", "http://doc.gitlab.com/ce/workflow/importing/migrating_from_svn.html"}.
+
+.form-group
+  .col-sm-offset-2.col-sm-10
+    .checkbox
+      = f.label :mirror do
+        = f.check_box :mirror
+        %strong
+          Mirror repository
+      .help-block
+        Automatically update this project's branches and tags from the upstream repository every hour.