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diff --git a/doc/raketasks/import.md b/doc/raketasks/import.md index b59c06a24ea..d93e7241fda 100644 --- a/doc/raketasks/import.md +++ b/doc/raketasks/import.md @@ -11,17 +11,17 @@ ## How to use -### Create a new folder to import your Git repositories from. +### Create a new folder to import your Git repositories from -The new folder needs to have git user ownership and read/write/execute access for git user and its group: +The new folder needs to have Git user ownership and read/write/execute access for Git user and its group: ``` sudo -u git mkdir -p /var/opt/gitlab/git-data/repository-import-<date>/new_group ``` -### Copy your bare repositories inside this newly created folder: +### Copy your bare repositories inside this newly created folder -- Any .git repositories found on any of the subfolders will be imported as projects +- Any `.git` repositories found on any of the subfolders will be imported as projects - Groups will be created as needed, these could be nested folders. Example: If we copy the repos to `/var/opt/gitlab/git-data/repository-import-<date>`, and repo A needs to be under the groups G1 and G2, it will @@ -34,11 +34,11 @@ sudo cp -r /old/git/foo.git /var/opt/gitlab/git-data/repository-import-<date>/ne sudo chown -R git:git /var/opt/gitlab/git-data/repository-import-<date> ``` -`foo.git` needs to be owned by the git user and git users group. +`foo.git` needs to be owned by the `git` user and `git` users group. If you are using an installation from source, replace `/var/opt/gitlab/` with `/home/git`. -### Run the command below depending on your type of installation: +### Run the command below depending on your type of installation #### Omnibus Installation @@ -96,11 +96,11 @@ Importing bare repositories from hashed storage is unsupported. To support importing bare repositories from hashed storage, GitLab 10.4 and later stores the full project path with each repository, in a special section of -the git repository's config file. This section is formatted as follows: +the Git repository's config file. This section is formatted as follows: ``` [gitlab] - fullpath = gitlab-org/gitlab-ce + fullpath = gitlab-org/gitlab-ce ``` However, existing repositories were not migrated to include this path. |