Is that possible to have all repositories on some local server and also browse it with Gitlab (hosted on other local server)?
I use Gitlab v8.3.3. and I have a following situation:
- I have all of my repositories stored at local server, say: 192.168.5.5 at /git
- I also have a local virtual machine that hosts Gitlab, at: 192.168.5.6
- I mounted my local git server at git-data directory (that's where repositories are being kept) by running: sshfs my.user@192.168.5.5:/git /var/opt/gitlab/git-data/repositories/server-group
server-group is an empty directory created by Gitlab when I created a new group with the same name.
Now I would like to be able to browse repositories mounted this way via Gitlab.
Is that possible?
I believe it should be but it needs some extra configuration?
Of course simple: gitlab-ctl reconfigure or gitlab-ctl restart doesn't help and Gitlab group server-group has 0 projects even though in it's directory I have valid "repos.git".
I resolved this issue by:
1. creating empty repositories with the same name using GitLab API
curl -k --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <your_private_token>" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"name":"<name_here>","path":"<the_same_name_here>","visibility_level":"10","namespace_id":"<id_of_my_group>"}' "https://192.168.5.6/api/v3/projects"
2. mounting our repositories as described in How can I use GitLab on one server and store all of the repositories on another? (including changing permissions - see answer)