This project has been replaced by gltctl.
gitlab_untar allows you to get and extract projects archives from a gitlab instance whithout having to install git or a shell or any toolchain (npm, pypi, ...), greatly reducing the surface attack and the execution speed. It's specially usefull in containers that needs to specialize (really quickly) at initialization and extract a defined set of plugins. We use that tool for odoo container.
Usage: gitlab_untar -c <config> [-v] <command> [<args>]
Extract latest projects archives from a gitlab server
Options:
-c, --config configuration file containing projects and gitlab connection
parameters
-v, --verbose more detailed output
--help display usage information
Commands:
get Get and extract archives
print Print latest commit hash
Usage: gitlab_untar print
Print latest commit hash
Options:
--help display usage information
For each projects specified in the config file, connect to a gitlab instance with a given token and print the latest commit hash of a given branch.
Usage: gitlab_untar get [-s <strip>] [-d <dir>] [-k] [-u]
Get and extract archives
Options:
-s, --strip strip first n path components of every entries in archive
before extraction
-d, --dir destination directory
-k, --keep skip extraction of projects if a directory with same name
already exists. by default destination directory is removed
before extraction
-u, --update update based on packages.lock file
--help display usage information
For each projects specified in the config file, connect to a gitlab instance with a given token and extract the latest archive.tar.gz of a given branch. The extraction is done from the stream whithout needing to preliminary download and save the archive on disk.
In update mode, a lock file containing hash of latest commit is used to decide if we need to extract again archives
The config file looks like
host: git.mydomain.com
token: xxxxxxxxxx
archives:
namespace1/project1: 'branch1'
namespace2/project2: 'branch2'The token is a regular gitlab access token with read privilege.