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
• 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:

# 3. Advanced settings
# ==========================

# GitLab Satellites
# satellites:
# Relative paths are relative to Rails.root (default: tmp/repo_satellites/)
# path: /home/git/gitlab-satellites/
# timeout: 30

satellites:
  path: /home/git/gitlab-satellites/
gitlab_shell:
  path: /home/git/gitlab-shell/
  repos_path: /home/git/repositories/
  hooks_path: /home/git/gitlab-shell/hooks/
  upload_pack: true
  receive_pack: true

Copy your bare repositories inside this newly created folder:

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

Run the commands below depending on your type of installation:

Omnibus Installation

$ sudo gitlab-rake gitlab:import:repos

$ sudo gitlab-rake gitlab:satellites:create

Manual Installation

Before running these commands 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

$ sudo -u git -H bundle exec rake gitlab:satellites:create

Example output:

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