Automated synchronization of remote Git repositories by pure Git and Convention-over-Git.
Consider to use git-repo-sync, the next generation of remote Git repositories synchronization solutions.
This approach uses well-known Git tools. It is because Git has an innate ability to do this. All we need to add is some convention.
In a terminal (console) navigate to the project's root folder and run the script
bash run.sh
Windows users have to use Git Bash that comes with any Git installation.
In sample_repos folder, you will find prepared (emulated) local and remote repositories with some commits and branches. Commit somthing or do a merge in any "local repository" and do the Git push. Then run
bash run.sh
again to see changes migrated between remote repositories.
Go to repo_settings folder and create there a file with your syncing repositories' settings.
Use sample_repo.sh file as an example.
Then run
bash run.sh your_file_for_repo_settings.sh
Repeat this run when you want to synchronize your remote repositories.
Convention over Git is a straightforward approach for an automatic synchronization between Git remote repositories. Absolutely separate remote repositories will begin behave as a single remote repository.
This approach uses well-known Git tools. It is because Git has an innate ability to do this. All we need to add is some convention.
Also you can see code explanation in Cheat-sheet for implementation
- Synchronizations of git-tags was eliminated to allow GitLab block them freelly.
- It is impossible to delete branch of another side. Such branches will be restored.
- Auto conflict resolving by Convention over Git (non-fast-forward branch conflicts).
- Prevention of an occasional deletion of an entire repository.
- Failover & auto recovery of synchronization. Especially for network troubles.
- Solution is applied per-repository (vs per-server)
- It has been downgraded here to use two remote Git repositories for clarity, but it can work with many.
- Bare Git repositories are used for synchronization.
- Do only a single commit to another repository side per the synchronization interval.