{"id":959,"date":"2026-04-09T07:55:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T07:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cloudabove.com\/help\/import-an-existing-git-repo-in-scout-control-panel\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T07:55:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T07:55:33","slug":"import-an-existing-git-repo-in-scout-control-panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloudabove.com\/help\/import-an-existing-git-repo-in-scout-control-panel\/","title":{"rendered":"Import an existing Git repo in Scout Control Panel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you&#8217;ve recently migrated a site into Scout that was previously deployed using Git, you can easily import the Git configuration to continue using Scout&#8216;s Git features<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Login to Scout Control Panel through your cloudabove customer area (<a href=\"https:\/\/my.cloudabove.com\">my.cloudabove.com<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Open the site&#8217;s settings via <strong>Site<\/strong> and then <strong>Settings <\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Select the <strong>Git<\/strong> tab from the top menu<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Click the three-dot menu on the right-hand side and click <strong>Import existing repo(s)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"337\" height=\"179\" src=\"https:\/\/kb.cloudabove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/04\/image-12.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kb.cloudabove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/04\/image-12.png 337w, https:\/\/kb.cloudabove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/04\/image-12-300x159.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 337px) 100vw, 337px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Importing an existing Git repo through Scout<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"banner-note\">\ud83d\udca1 Currently Scout will only scan the <code>site<\/code> directory and document root (e.g. <code>public_html<\/code>) for Git repos. If you have a repo that&#8217;s in a nested directory, please contact us and we&#8217;ll be happy to help. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve recently migrated a site into Scout that was previously deployed using Git, you can easily import the Git configuration to continue using Scout&#8217;s Git features Login to Scout Control Panel through your cloudabove customer area (my.cloudabove.com) Open the site&#8217;s settings via Site and then Settings Select the Git&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-our-control-panel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudabove.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudabove.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudabove.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudabove.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudabove.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cloudabove.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":961,"href":"https:\/\/cloudabove.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959\/revisions\/961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudabove.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudabove.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudabove.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}