title: Initialize gitolite repository in existing folder
body: <p>I'm fairly new to Git and Gitolite, but yesterday I managed to get it up and running. </p>
  
  <p>The thing is, I have a folder with many projects (let's call it <code>/projects</code>) and I'm trying to migrate them to Git. I symlinked Gitolites <code>/repositories</code> folder to this <code>/projects</code> folder, so now every new repo is created in the <code>/projects</code> folder. It works allright.</p>
  
  <p>But now I want to make a repo for every project (subfolder) in the <code>/projects</code> folder. If I initialize a new repo in Gitolite (let's call it <code>/myproject</code>), it creates a new folder called <code>myproject.git</code> instead of using the old <code>myproject</code> folder with the files I'm already working with. </p>
  
  <p>So, how can I turn all the individual projects folders into Git repositories, using Gitolite? I'd like not to manually download and append all those files.</p>