How do I rename a Git repository created with gitolite?

As stated in the gitolite basic-admin manual:

renaming a repo

This is similar; there’s no code to do this in gitolite. What you do is:

• log on to the server, cd $REPO_BASE (default: cd ~/repositories), and

  mv old-name.git new-name.git

• back on your gitolite-admin clone, edit conf/gitolite.conf and replace all occurrences of old-name with new-name. Then add, commit, and push as usual.

The order of these 2 steps is important; do not reverse them 🙂

A third step is necessary on gitolite3:

• edit file gl-conf in the repo and change the repository name to the new name

And of course, every user should update his clone configuration to point to the new repo name.