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I'm fairly new to Git and Gitolite, but yesterday I managed to get it up and running.

The thing is, I have a folder with many projects (let's call it /projects) and I'm trying to migrate them to Git. I symlinked Gitolites /repositories folder to this /projects folder, so now every new repo is created in the /projects folder. It works allright.

But now I want to make a repo for every project (subfolder) in the /projects folder. If I initialize a new repo in Gitolite (let's call it /myproject), it creates a new folder called myproject.git instead of using the old myproject folder with the files I'm already working with.

So, how can I turn all the individual projects folders into Git repositories, using Gitolite? I'd like not to manually download and append all those files.

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That is the way Gitolite works: it manages bare repositories (the xxx.git folders), not working tree (directories full of files, like projects/myprojects/).

So: don't symlink repositories to /projects: both are for very different purpose.

You can inititiate and import each project directly in their own directory (/projects/myproject/.git), and then import it to Gitolite, following "how to configure a migrated git repository in gitolite".

Pierre De LESPINAY mentions in the comments the official documentation:

"appendix 1: bringing existing repos into gitolite"

  • Move the repos to $HOME/repositories.
  • Make sure that:
    • They are all bare repos.
    • All the repo names end in ".git".
    • All the files and directories are owned and writable by the gitolite hosting user (especially true if you copied them as root).
  • Run gitolite setup.
    If you forget this step, you can also forget about write access control!

back on your workstation:

  • If the repos are normal repos, add them to conf/gitolite.conf in your clone of the admin repo, then commit and push the change.
  • If the repos are wildcard repos that already match some repo regex in the conf file, you need to manually create the gl-creator file, like so:
echo username > ~/repositories/path/to/repo.git/gl-creator
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  • If I understand what you're saying, Gitolite won't manage my project's files, as a standard Git repo would? – Armin Cifuentes Jan 29 '13 at 20:22
  • @ArminCifuentes Gitolite is an **[authorization layer](http://sitaramc.github.com/gitolite/auth.html)**: all it does is accept or deny your git clone/push/pull commands to said `repositories/`: for that, not need of a full repos, only a **[bare repo](http://sitaramc.github.com/concepts/bare.html)** is enough. – VonC Jan 29 '13 at 20:29
  • The official instructions for [bringing existing repos into gitolite](http://gitolite.com/gitolite/basic-admin.html#existing) worked fine for me – Pierre de LESPINAY Aug 30 '14 at 07:19
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    @PierredeLESPINAY good point. I have included those instructions in the answer for more visibility. – VonC Aug 30 '14 at 07:48