diff --git a/gitlab-rails/scripts/db-reindex b/gitlab-rails/scripts/db-reindex
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9560dac4e854915425d1cf369fbd7b1781a1a947
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+++ b/gitlab-rails/scripts/db-reindex
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+#!/bin/bash
+
+set -e
+
+echo "Performing automatic database reindexing"
+cd /srv/gitlab
+/srv/gitlab/bin/rake gitlab:db:reindex