Update from 7.8 to 7.9 - no home directory

Hey there, before some days I installed the 7.8 version. Now I wanted to upgrade to the 7.9 but there's no home directory. I'm using debian wheezy and installed gitlab as in your installation instruction described: https://about.gitlab.com/downloads/

The first question is, why the home directory wasn't created on installation.

I found following two files:

/opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gitlab-ci/script/upgrade.rb
/opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gitlab-rails/bin/upgrade.rb

But the install script did not worked with them:

Stash changed files
 -> git stash
fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git
 -> FAILED
Failed to upgrade. Try to repeat task or proceed with upgrade manually

Status changed to closed

The upgrader script is for manual installations. You used the package so to upgrade just install the new version. There is a link from where you downloaded gitlab providing all the information.

Thanks, may you should give that info in the update documentation :)

mentioned in merge request !14785