I'm fairly new to Git and Gitolite, but yesterday I managed to get it up and running.
The thing is, I have a folder with many projects (let's call it /projects) and I'm trying to migrate them to Git. I symlinked Gitolites /repositories folder to this /projects folder, so now every new repo is created in the /projects folder. It works allright.
But now I want to make a repo for every project (subfolder) in the /projects folder. If I initialize a new repo in Gitolite (let's call it /myproject), it creates a new folder called myproject.git instead of using the old myproject folder with the files I'm already working with.
So, how can I turn all the individual projects folders into Git repositories, using Gitolite? I'd like not to manually download and append all those files.
That is the way Gitolite works: it manages bare repositories (the xxx.git folders), not working tree (directories full of files, like projects/myprojects/).
So: don't symlink repositories to /projects: both are for very different purpose.
You can inititiate and import each project directly in their own directory (/projects/myproject/.git), and then import it to Gitolite, following "how to configure a migrated git repository in gitolite".
Pierre De LESPINAY mentions in the comments the official documentation:
- Move the repos to
$HOME/repositories.- Make sure that:
- They are all bare repos.
- All the repo names end in "
.git".- All the files and directories are owned and writable by the gitolite hosting user (especially true if you copied them as root).
- Run
gitolite setup.
If you forget this step, you can also forget about write access control!back on your workstation:
- If the repos are normal repos, add them to
conf/gitolite.confin your clone of the admin repo, then commit and push the change.- If the repos are wildcard repos that already match some repo regex in the conf file, you need to manually create the gl-creator file, like so:
echo username > ~/repositories/path/to/repo.git/gl-creator