Bringing existing repo into gitolite

The proposition on the original docs is slightly complex because it involves bringing the bare repo to the server, check a lot of things and run exotic gitolite commands

My solution is easier and without having to touch anything server side

1. Create the repo in gitolite-admin/conf/gitolite.conf and push it. This creates an empty bare repo remotely

2. Go to some copy of the existing repo you want to move to gitolite

   $ #Configure your repo url as origin
   $ git remote add origin your.gitserver:repo.name.from.step1
   $ #Push the repo
   $ git push origin master
   $ #Assign current branch (master) to origin/master
   $ git branch --set-upstream-to=origin/master
   

3. Profit!!!