AFAIK soft linking is not possible - the Gitlab troubleshooting guide says so: https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlab-public-wiki/wiki/Trouble-Shooting-Guide#gitlab-shell and the config.yml file contains:
# Repositories path # Give the canonicalized absolute pathname, # REPOS_PATH MUST NOT CONTAIN ANY SYMLINK!!! # Check twice that none of the components is a symlink, including "/home". repos_path: "/var/opt/gitlab/git-data/repositories" So I think that's likely to be your problem On Thursday, April 30, 2015 at 9:18:01 PM UTC-7, Austin Mico wrote: > > Hi, > > It is not just about the cloning process. I am trying to link my > repositories. Either repositories created through gitlab or repositories > manually created. The problem is that soft linking the repository does not > work? Anyone experienced this already? > > For example: > If I have an existing repository /var/git/testrepo.git and I want it on > the home of git user account in /home/git/git-repositories. > I will do > ln -s /var/git/testrepo.git /home/git/git-repositories/testrepo.git > > After that if I clone with > > git clone git@githost:git-repositories/testrepo.git > > The client prompts that it cannot find the repository. > But if you do > git clone --bare file:///var/git/testrepo.git > /home/git/git-repositories/testrepo.git > > and peform git clone > > git clone git@githost:git-repositories/testrepo.git > > and it works. > > Is it really possible to use soft linking? Or I just missed something. I > made git a member of apache and made the repositories group writable by > apache. I have also set the repositories as a shared repository as > suggested by some on the net. > > Any ideas. > > Thanks, > > Austin > > > > On Monday, April 27, 2015 at 11:10:41 PM UTC+8, Karen Carias wrote: >> >> Hello Austin. Cloning may be tricky, but here's a similar situation >> solved http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6167905/git-clone-through-ssh >> >> Regards, >> >> Karen >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GitLab" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to gitlabhq+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gitlabhq/87bee971-ea29-4135-83d7-f4bacc4aa4a7%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
