GitSwarm 2016.3-2 Documentation

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• Import bare repositories into your GitSwarm instance
  • Notes
  • How to use
    • Create a new folder inside the git repositories path. This will be the name of the new group.
    • Copy your bare repositories inside this newly created folder:
    • Run the command below depending on your type of installation:

Import bare repositories into your GitSwarm 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 gitswarm, it is located at: /var/opt/gitswarm/git-data/repositories by default, unless you changed it in the /etc/gitswarm/gitswarm.rb file.
• For source 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 repositories => storages entries (you'll usually use the default storage path to start).

New folder needs to have git user ownership and read/write/execute access for git user and its group:

sudo -u git mkdir /var/opt/gitswarm/git-data/repositories/new_group

If you are using an source installation, replace /var/opt/gitswarm/git-data with /home/git.

Copy your bare repositories inside this newly created folder:

sudo cp -r /old/git/foo.git /var/opt/gitswarm/git-data/repositories/new_group/

# Do this once when you are done copying git repositories
sudo chown -R git:git /var/opt/gitswarm/git-data/repositories/new_group/

foo.git needs to be owned by the git user and git users group.

If you are using an source installation, replace /var/opt/gitswarm/git-data with /home/git.

Run the command below depending on your type of installation:

Package Installation

$ sudo gitswarm-rake gitswarm:import:repos

Source 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 gitswarm: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)
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