On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 10:39 AM, Peter King via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
I have a repository cloned from an original master repository -- but the server it was taken from, hosting the original master repository with git/gitolite, is now defunct, leaving me with only my cloned repository.
I have now set up another server running git and gitolite, and I can successfully log in via ssh, clone/pull/push the gitolite-admin repo, and add a new bare repo to that server by editing gitolite-admin, all as it should be.
How do I take the old repository cloned from the defunct server and set it up as master on the new git/gitolite server? There are a few steps involved, and it isn't clear how or in what order to carry them out:
(1) put the old repository on the new git/gitolite server, to be managed by gitolite
(2) make that repository on the new git/gitolite server to be the master/origin from now on
From looking at the documentation and googling around, it seems like I can accomplish (1) by just modifying the gitolite-admin on my local machine to add a "new" repository (namely the old cloned repository) to which I give myself access. One thing I'm not clear about is whether I then put the old cloned repository in the proper place in my filesystem and then push the changes to gitolite-admin, or first push the changes so that there is a "new" empty repo created by gitolite, pull the empty repo, replace it with the old cloned repo, or what.
Anyway, at some point in the process (after the above? in the middle?) I need to set git/gitolite up to point to the old cloned repository, now managed by gitolite, to be the orgin/master. When?
Sorry for the elementary questions, but I don't want to make any mistakes in re-situating the old cloned repository. If anyone knows the answers and can tell me, preferably assuming that I'm a complete novice to git/gitolite, I'd appreciate it. Thanks!
I think what you are asking could be accomplished with: Rename the current origin remote to old-origin: $ git remote rename origin old-origin Create a new origin: $ git remote add origin git@gitloite-server:repo.git Push to the new repo and set as upstream: $ git push --set-upstream origin master