Hello,

I've built my first git server. I need to copy the repositories from the old git server to the new, how do I do this?

I've seen several questions about exporting or importing git data to other systems like svn but not on making a copy from one git server to another.

We are moving from a bare metal system to VMs. I've built the VM and installed git on it. I now need to move the data from the old server to the new VM. Once I've confirmed that the developers can use the new repositories I can wipe the old, but I need the both to work side by side until I can confirm the new server is working.

This is on a RHEL 5.5 OS.

Thank you

I think I found something close to what I need, the following seems to kinda/sorta work:

I did the first one as root so it wound up being owned by root. I did the next one as the gitosis user and so it wound up being owned by the gitosis user, which is what I want. Can I simply do a chown on the first one to the gitosis user or will that bother git? Would it be better to properly delete it through git and then re-clone it?

can I just tar up a group of repositories and copy them to the 2nd server and untar them?

apparently the first command to clone my repositories was not sufficient. When I try to run the command
I get
which means that it can't find the git repository

I have gitosis home set to /git
I have a dir /git/repositories
I ran the clone command in the dir /git/repositories and have the dir /git/repositories/scripts
difference between cloned copy and orig is under the dir. /git/repositories/scripts are dirs like branches, hooks and files like config, description, and HEAD
In the cloned dirs those files and dirs are one dir deeper in /git/repositories/scripts/.git

Does anyone have any ideas on why I cannot remotely get to the files from the new system?