gitlabhq/doc/raketasks/maintenance.md

Setup production application

Runs the following rake tasks:

• db:setup (Create the database, load the schema, and initialize with the seed data)
• db:seed_fu (Loads seed data for the current environment.)
• gitlab:app:enable_automerge (see "Features")

bundle exec rake gitlab:app:setup

Check GitLab installation status

Trouble-Shooting-Guide

bundle exec rake gitlab:app:status

Example output:

config/database.yml............exists
config/gitlab.yml............exists
/home/git/repositories/............exists
/home/git/repositories/ is writable?............YES
Can clone gitolite-admin?............YES
Can git commit?............YES
UMASK for .gitolite.rc is 0007? ............YES
/home/git/.gitolite/hooks/common/post-receive exists? ............YES

Validating projects repositories:
* abcd.....post-receive file ok
* abcdtest.....post-receive file missing

Finished

Rebuild each key at gitolite config

This will send all users ssh public keys to gitolite and grant them access (based on their permission) to their projects.

bundle exec rake gitlab:gitolite:update_keys

Rebuild each project at gitolite config

This makes sure that all projects are present in gitolite and can be accessed.

bundle exec rake gitlab:gitolite:update_repos

Import bare repositories into GitLab project instance

Notes:

• project owner will be a first admin
• existing projects will be skipped

How to use:

1. copy your bare repos under git base_path (see config/gitlab.yml git_host -> base_path)
2. run the command below

bundle exec rake gitlab:import:repos RAILS_ENV=production

Example output:

Processing abcd.git
 * Created abcd (abcd.git)
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