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How to change repositories location in gitolite3

I've just installed gitolite3 and as a default it creates its "home" /var/lib/gitolite3

I want that folder to be somewhere else like /home/gitolite3.

How do I move it there?

All the references I found around the web turn around a REPO_BASE variable that is nowhere to be found.

Any ideas?

Solution

  • GL_REPO_BASE is a variable you can set in your ~/.gitolite.rc file.
    By default, it references $HOME/repositories.

    But this isn't related to where you have installed gitolite.

    You can install it wherever you want:

    git clone git://github.com/sitaramc/gitolite
gitolite/install -ln /path/to/wherever/you/want
gitolite setup -pk yourname.pub

    The OP added in the comments below:

    I added this line to the .rc : 

     GL_REPO_BASE => "/home/gitolite",

    (mind the trailing ',')