Move Rebuild the Gitolite server

Here is how I moved or rebuild the gitolite server.

My old gitolite version is 1.x.
Mark IP:[192.168.1.2]
Clone your old gitolite-admin repo to somewhere.

The new gitolite I install on Debian 7 Wheezy through backports.
Mark IP:[192.168.1.3]

1. Make sure generate ssh key before you install gitolite3.


2. Install gitolite3.




# apt-get update
# apt-get install gitolite3


It will asking you for the public key.


3. Clone the gitolite-admin somewhere.



# git clone gitolite3@192.168.1.3:gitolite-admin



4. copy the gitolite-adminconfgitolite.conf from old gitolite-admin repo to new gitolite-admin repo.

Be careful of the admin for repo gitolite-admin.
Make sure you have the key for the permission.


5. copy the keys gitolite-adminkeydir* from old gitolite-admin repo to new gitolite-admin repo.



6. copy all the repos from the old server to new server into a temp folder:.



# scp -r root@192.168.1.2:/home/git/repositories /tmp



7. Drop the gitolite-admin and any other retired repo, then move them into the new gitolite3 repository folder:.



# rm -rf /tmp/repositories/gitolite-admin.git/
# rm -rf /tmp/repositories/testing.git/

# mv /tmp/repositories/* /var/lib/gitolite3/repositories/



8. Make sure the files end up with the right ownership and permissions; if not, chown/chmod them..

I found most easy way to do it run scp by gitolite3 user.


9. Push the changes on the new gitolite-admin repo:.



# git add keydir/
# git commit -a
# git push


And you are all set.