Commit 8df52155 authored by Katrin Leinweber's avatar Katrin Leinweber

Clarify effect of subfolders on import

parent 7734aed0
......@@ -17,11 +17,14 @@ Note that:
To import bare repositories into a GitLab instance:
1. Create a new folder to import your Git repositories from. The new folder needs to have Git user
1. Create a new folder to import your Git repositories from.
If the final projects should reside in a (sub)group's namespace,
instead of the admin's, create them as subfolders.
The new folder(s) needs to have Git user
ownership and read/write/execute access for Git user and its group:
```shell
sudo -u git mkdir -p /var/opt/gitlab/git-data/repository-import-<date>/new_group
sudo -u git mkdir -p /var/opt/gitlab/git-data/repository-import-<date>/<optional_groupname>/<optional_subgroup>
```
1. Copy your bare repositories inside this newly created folder. Note:
......@@ -34,7 +37,7 @@ To import bare repositories into a GitLab instance:
`/var/opt/gitlab/git-data/repository-import-<date>/G1/G2/A.git`.
```shell
sudo cp -r /old/git/foo.git /var/opt/gitlab/git-data/repository-import-<date>/new_group/
sudo cp -r /old/git/foo.git /var/opt/gitlab/git-data/repository-import-<date>/<optional_groupname>/<optional_subgroup>
# Do this once when you are done copying git repositories
sudo chown -R git:git /var/opt/gitlab/git-data/repository-import-<date>
......
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