How to add existing repository to gitea from filesystem?

Question

I have some bare git repository on my filesystem where users do pull/push. I install gitea and can't find how to add it to gitea. Other git-management systems have something like "add repository from filesystem", "scan directory", etc. which added existing repo to system. How to add it in gitea?

Answer 1

At the moment I migrate from Filesystem Repositorys to Gitea.

How this could be done is heavily discussed here (we used SSH), where I got the basis for my approach.

The following steps worked for me:

1. Clone the repo.git folder to another location git clone path/to/repo.git

2. Create an empty repo in Gitea. Either by hand or using the api

   curl \
     -X POST "http://localhost:3000/api/v1/user/repos" \
     -H "accept: application/json" \
     -H "Authorization: token MY_TOKEN*" \
     -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
     -d "{\"name\": \"REPO_NAME\"}" \
     -i
   

3. Optionally transfer to a organization

   curl \
     -X POST "http://localhost:3000/api/v1/repos/CURRENT_OWNER/REPO_NAME/transfer" \
     -H "accept: application/json" \
     -H "Authorization: token MY_TOKEN*" \
     -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
     -d "{\"new_owner\": \"NEW_ORGANIZATION_OR_INDIVIDUAL\"}" \
     -i
   

4. Push the repo to gitea

• git remote add neworigin "http://localhost:3000/username/test.git"
• git push neworigin --all
• git push neworigin --tags

*https://docs.gitea.io/en-us/api-usage/