title: Recreating Gitolite-admin Repo
body: <p>I have taken over a project where the previous admin provided no help, no documentation and no handover...I am trying to clone the gitolite-admin repo so that I can add myself as a user.</p>
  
  <p>The issue is that when I run</p>
  
  <pre><code>git clone gitolite@repo1:gitolite-admin.git
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I receive the error</p>
  
  <pre><code>R access for gitolite-admin DENIED to macbook
  (Or there may be no repository at the given path. Did you spell it correctly?)
  fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>With the server's conf/gitolit.conf file containing </p>
  
  <pre><code>repo    gitolite-admin
      RW+     =   macbook
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>My repositories contains gitolite-admin.git amongst others, and I successfully ran </p>
  
  <pre><code>git clone gitolite@repo1:wp_of_travel
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>When I run </p>
  
  <pre><code>ssh gitolite@repo1 info
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I am returned a number of projects, but gitolite-admin is not listed there.</p>
  
  <p>Is my situation hopeless or am I missing something where I can reconstruct the repo and clone it again? </p>
  
  <p>I do have full control over the server if that helps...</p>
  
  <p>Any help or advice on this matter is more than welcome.
  Thank you</p>