Question

I’m switching from SVN to Git with Gitosis installed on a central server for centralized repositories on Ubuntu server.

I have had all my SVN repositories moved and initiated into new Git repositories, and also had all history moved to Git.

Now that I have all the repositories migrated to Git, I want to add all the repositories into Gitosis to be managed by Gitosis.

How can I move the repositories (Git initiated ones) into Gitosis /srv/gitosis/repositories and manage them through gitosis-admin.git remotely?

Answer 1

The idea is to declare you repo in the conf/gitosis.conf file from your gitosis-admin local (cloned) repo:

[group groupname]
writable = reponame
members = username

git add -A
git ci -m "updated configuration"
git push

, which will create a bare repo, to which to which you can push your local repo.

mkdir myproject
cd mypyroject
git init
# do some work, git add and commit files
# Then add your server as a remote and push:

git remote add serveralias git@hostname:reponame.git
git push serveralias master

See this tutorial for more

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That being said, I find gitolite much more complete than gitosis, like all those recent blog posts illustrate:

• A Pure Git Deploy Workflow (with Jekyll and Gitolite)
• Git Repository Server using Gitolite
• Gitolite installation with gitweb and anongit in Gentoo and Debian

And you can migrate from gitosis to gitolite easily enough.