giternity 0.1

Mirror git repositories.

giternity

Giternity is a tool to mirror your git repositories from GitHub. You can specify a username/organization to mirror all their repositories, or just individual repo’s. It retrieves some repo metadata so they can be nicely served with cgit. Run giternity periodically to update the mirrors.

Installation

Install giternity:

sudo pip3 install giternity

You also need to have git installed.

Configuration

The configuration file is at /etc/giternity.toml:

# path where to keep the git mirrors
git_data_path = "/srv/git/"

# URL of your cgit instance (optional)
# cgit_url = "https://git.cpu.re/"

[github]
repositories = [
    "rahiel",
    "sunsistemo",
    "TeMPOraL/nyan-mode",
]

In the [github] section you specify which repositories to mirror. You list a username ("rahiel") or an organization ("sunsistemo") to mirror all of their non-fork repositories. For individual repos ("TeMPOraL/nyan-mode") you specify them like owner/repo.

With the configuration in place you simply run giternity.

For convenience there is an automatic configuration that sets up a separate system user, gives this user permissions to git_data_path and creates a cron job at /etc/cron.d/giternity to update the mirrors every hour. Apply these defaults with:

sudo giternity --configure

cgit

Your git mirrors are now suitable to serve with cgit. Customize your /etc/cgitrc as you like and add the following to the bottom:

agefile=info/web/last-modified
section-from-path=1
scan-path=/srv/git/

where you replace /srv/git/ with the git_data_path from your /etc/giternity.toml.