Add a top-level repo_data_directory attribute to /etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb

This directory would be owned by git (addressing an issue raised in #41 (closed)) and would contain:

• repositories;
• satellites;
• an old copy of repositories after a backup restore.

By creating a top-level attribute, users do not have to tweak all the individual directories if they want to store the repository data on a different volume. Instead, they would just add the following to /etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb:

repo_data_directory "/mnt/nas_storage"

/cc @sytses

@sytses what do you think about this feature? Are you OK with including it in the release milestone?

I think the usefulness of the feature and the fact that it avoids refactoring the GitLab backup code outweigh the extra development time it would cost.

@jacobvosmaer In 7.0 we'll change the directory structure. Should we move this to dev.gitlab.com and mark it 7.0 or do you want to do it before this?

This would be a setting at the omnibus level, not at the gitlab-rails level.

Let's call it git_data_dir, with a default of /var/opt/gitlab/git-data.

Reassigned to @jacobvosmaer

mentioned in merge request !55 (merged)

Status changed to closed