尝试将现有 git 项目上传到 gitlab 时，如何解决“预接收挂钩被拒绝”错误？

Question

Our project was developed by another external company and hosted in their respective gitlab account.

Now they have passed us the source code and we want to upload it to our gitlab account. We have created a private repository in gitlab for this. This repository only has the admin user and is empty.

However, when doing git push origin master it gives us the following error:

[remote rejected] master -> master (pre-receive hook declined)
error: some references to 'gitlab.com:sanduzelai/xxx.git' failed to push

How can we fix this error?

I've read similar questions on stackoverflow but haven't gotten it to work. I have tried creating a branch from master and doing git push but it has not worked. If I delete the .git folder and create it with the git init command the repository is successfully uploaded to gitlab. However, I would like to keep the logs. Is this possible?

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

You might consider if the external company will "transfer" the project to you instead of a download/upload like what's being done, as that would preserve not only the repository history, but also any open issues on the project. If they (or you) run a self-hosted gitlab, you can also export and import the project to get the same approach.

That having been said, there are multiple things that can cause this type of an issue, but here are a couple of examples:

• If you're running a self-hosted gitlab, you may have server-side git hooks that are blocking the commit.
• If you're running on gitlab.com, you may have rules enabled that force a certain email to be used for pushing a commit, or you may require GPG signing of commits

You should likely send a note to your gitlab admin and determine what your setup is, and what may be blocking the commit.