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Reminder to all repository users: Please do not add , commit and push any data files to your remote git repositories. The disk space the Git server is limited, it wasn't dimensioned to host anything else than code. Solely your code files need versioning. The data inputs/outputs don't. A good idea is to do "git add" individually on each file you want to commit, to avoid versioning unwanted content.

Installing a locally compiled google-protobuf gem

First we must find the exact version of google-protobuf that your GitLab installation requires.

cd /home/git/gitlab

# Only one of the following two commands will print something. It
# will look like: * google-protobuf (3.2.0)
bundle list | grep google-protobuf
bundle check | grep google-protobuf

Below we use 3.2.0 as an example. Replace it with the version number you found above.

cd /home/git/gitlab
sudo -u git -H gem install google-protobuf --version 3.2.0 --platform ruby

Finally, you can test whether google-protobuf loads correctly. The following should print 'OK'.

sudo -u git -H bundle exec ruby -rgoogle/protobuf -e 'puts :OK'

If the gem install command fails you may need to install developer tools. On Debian: apt-get install build-essential libgmp-dev, on Centos/RedHat yum groupinstall 'Development Tools'.