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, including subgroups
The owner of the group will be the first admin
Existing projects will be skipped
The existing Git repos will be moved from disk (removed from the original path)

How to use

Create a new folder to import your Git repositories from.

The 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/gitlab/git-data/repository-import-<date>/new_group

Copy your bare repositories inside this newly created folder:

Any .git repositories found on any of the subfolders will be imported as projects
Groups will be created as needed, these could be nested folders. Example:

If we copy the repos to /var/opt/gitlab/git-data/repository-import-<date>, and repo A needs to be under the groups G1 and G2, it will have to be created under those folders: /var/opt/gitlab/git-data/repository-import-<date>/G1/G2/A.git.

sudo cp -r /old/git/foo.git /var/opt/gitlab/git-data/repository-import-<date>/new_group/

# Do this once when you are done copying git repositories
sudo chown -R git:git /var/opt/gitlab/git-data/repository-import-<date>

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

If you are using an installation from source, replace /var/opt/gitlab/ with /home/git.

Run the command below depending on your type of installation:

Omnibus Installation

$ sudo gitlab-rake gitlab:import:repos['/var/opt/gitlab/git-data/repository-import-<date>']

Installation from source

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['/var/opt/gitlab/git-data/repository-import-<date>'] RAILS_ENV=production

Example output

Processing /var/opt/gitlab/git-data/repository-import-1/a/b/c/blah.git
 * Using namespace: a/b/c
 * Created blah (a/b/c/blah)
 * Skipping repo  /var/opt/gitlab/git-data/repository-import-1/a/b/c/blah.wiki.git
Processing /var/opt/gitlab/git-data/repository-import-1/abcd.git
 * Created abcd (abcd.git)
Processing /var/opt/gitlab/git-data/repository-import-1/group/xyz.git
 * Using namespace: group (2)
 * Created xyz (group/xyz.git)
 * Skipping repo /var/opt/gitlab/git-data/repository-import-1/@shared/a/b/abcd.git
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