# migrating from gitosis to gitolite

[TODO: make the migration tool fix up gitweb and daemon control also...]

Migrating from gitosis to gitolite is pretty easy, because the basic design is
the same.

Here's how we migrated my work repos:

1.  login as the `git` user on the server, and get a bash shell prompt

2.  **disable gitosis** by renaming `/usr/bin/gitosis-serve` to something
    else.  This will prevent users from pushing anything while you do the
    backup, migration, etc.

3.  **edit** `~/.ssh/authorized_keys` and **carefully** remove all the lines
    containing "gitosis-serve", as well as the marker line that says
    "auto-generated by gitosis, DO NOT REMOVE", then save the file.  If the
    file did not have any other keys and is now empty, don't worry -- save it
    anyway because gitolite expects the file to be present (even if it is
    empty).

4.  For added safety, **delete** the post-update hook that gitosis-admin
    installed

        rm ~/repositories/gitosis-admin.git/hooks/post-update

    or at least rename it to `.sample` like all the other hooks hanging
    around, or edit it and comment out the line that calls `gitosis-run-hook
    post-update`.

    If you do not do this, an accidental push to the gitosis-admin repo will
    mess up your `~/.ssh/authorized_keys` file

5.  take a **backup** of the `~/repositories` directory

Now, log off the server and get back to the client:

1.  follow instructions to install gitolite; see install document.  Make sure
    that you **don't** change the default path for `$REPO_BASE`!

2.  **convert** your gitosis config file.  Substitute the path for your
    gitosis-admin clone in `$GSAC` below, and similarly the path for your
    gito**lite**-admin clone in `$GLAC`

        src/conf-convert.pl < $GSAC/gitosis.conf > $GLAC/gitolite.conf

    Be sure to check the file to make sure it converted correctly

3.  **copy** the keys from gitosis's keydir (same meanings for GSAC and GLAC)

        cp $GSAC/keydir/* $GLAC/keydir

4.  **Important: expand any multi-key files you may have**.  See the "faq,
    tips, etc" document in the doc directory for an explanation of what
    multi-keys are, how gitosis does them and how gitolite does it
    differently.

    You can split the keys manually, or use the following code (just
    copy-paste it into your xterm after "cd"-ing to your gitolite-admin repo
    clone):

        wc -l keydir/*.pub | grep -v total | grep -v -w 1 | while read a b
        do
            i=1
            cat $b|while read l
            do
                echo "$l" > ${b%.pub}@$i.pub
                (( i++ ))
            done
            mv $b $b.done
        done

    This will split each multi-key file (say "sitaram.pub") into individual
    files called "sitaram@1.pub", "sitaram@2.pub", etc., and rename the
    original to "sitaram.pub.done" so gitolite won't pick it up.

    At this point you can rename the split parts more appropriately, like
    "sitaram@laptop.pub" and "sitaram@desktop.pub" or whatever.  *Please check
    the files to make sure this worked properly*

5.  Check all your changes to your gitolite-admin clone, commit, and push