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# Import bare repositories (removed) **(FREE SELF)**

The Rake task for importing bare repositories was [deprecated](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests/108507)
in GitLab 15.8 and [removed](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests/118676) in GitLab 16.0.