I would like to know the preferable way to move all my git repositories currently hosted on github to a new git server gitolite-based.
Just for knowing, the reason why I'm doing this switch is the adoption of Redmine to support our project management process.
Add the new repo in gitolite-admin/conf/gitolite.conf
repo my-new-repo
RW+ = your-user
Add, commit and push the changes into gitolite-admin
git add conf/gitolite.conf
git commit -m "Added my-new-repo"
git push origin
Clone your github repo and checkout all the branches present
git clone github.com:/USERNAME/YOUR_REPO.git
cd YOUR_REPO
for branch in `git branch -a | grep remotes | grep -v HEAD | grep -v master`; do git branch --track ${branch##*/} $branch; done
Remove the github remote, and add your gitolite remote:
git remote rm origin
git remote add origin YOURSERVER:my-new-repo.git
Push all the refs onto the repo managed by gitolite:
git push --all origin
I verified the steps in a test repository of mine, and all the refs seem to have propagated into the new repo.
UPDATE: Like Seth pointed out, any other refs other than branches are not propagated to the new repo. I too feel Mirror would be a better option.