gitlab-org--gitlab-foss/doc/raketasks/import.md

Import bare repositories into your GitLab instance

Notes

• The owner of the project will be the first admin
• The groups will be created as needed
• The owner of the group will be the first admin
• Existing projects will be skipped

How to use

Create a new folder inside the git repositories path. This will be the name of the new group.

• For omnibus-gitlab, it is located at: /var/opt/gitlab/git-data/repositories by default, unless you changed it in the /etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb file.
• For manual installations, it is usually located at: /home/git/repositories or you can see where your repositories are located by looking at config/gitlab.yml under the gitlab_shell => repos_path entry.

Copy your bare repositories inside this newly created folder:

$ cp -r /old/git/foo.git/ /home/git/repositories/new_group/

Run the command below depending on your type of installation:

Omnibus Installation

$ sudo gitlab-rake gitlab:import:repos

Manual Installation

Before running this command you need to change the directory to where your GitLab installation is located:

$ cd /home/git/gitlab
$ sudo -u git -H bundle exec rake gitlab:import:repos RAILS_ENV=production

Example output

Processing abcd.git
 * Created abcd (abcd.git)
Processing group/xyz.git
 * Created Group group (2)
 * Created xyz (group/xyz.git)
[...]