fix gitolite perl error: rebuild locales

I run gitolite3 on a Debian 10 Server. Got this error when try to push from etckeeper by git push:

remote: perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
remote: perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
remote:         LANGUAGE = (unset),
remote:         LC_ALL = (unset),
remote:         LANG = "en_CA.UTF-8"
remote:     are supported and installed on your system.
remote: perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").

Spent a lot of time try to set the LANGUAG, LC_ALL and LANG on the git client side. None of them works. End up rebuild locales on the gitolite3 host server:

sudo locale-gen en_US en_US.UTF-8
sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales

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.