How to Push Project (Repo) History to Git (Gitlab Server) After Server is Broken

Question

I had a local GitLab server with a project. After few months, the server was broken and the repository was gone. Now, I have a local repository with unpushed files. All the history is available on my local repository though. The new GitLab server is now empty with no project.

How can I push all my local machine repository history (following with the unpushed files) to the new GitLab server? What steps should I do to create the repository just like the way it was before? There are other developers that we were working on this repo, however, they don't have any unpushed files. My local machine has the most updated state of the project.

Answer 1

This is what I did and it worked:

1. Create a new project on GitLab (with the same group and name as before)

2. Set the new GitLab Name and Email (if different from before):

    $ git config --global user.name "Name"
    $ git config --global user.email email@example.com

3. Commit any uncommitted changes on Git (git commit).

4. Set the new GitLab project URL to Git (if changed from before):

    $ git remote set-url origin [URL]

4. Use commands below to push all the history tree to the new project:

    $ git push -u origin --all
    $ git push -u origin --tags

5. You can finally check the history tree on the GitLab Web to make sure everything is done correctly.