GitLab Cookbook

Importing an existing repository

It's quite simple to import your repositories from somewhere else. All you need to do is create a new project and select the repository to be imported. In this recipe, we will take a look at how this is done. For this recipe, we will import the repository hosted on GitHub at https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlab-shell.

How to do it…

In the following steps, we will import a repository:

1. Log in to your GitLab instance.
2. Click on New project.
   
3. Enter the project name as GitLab Shell.
4. Click on Import existing repository?.
   
5. Enter the ...