gitmirrord is a trivial tool that sits and waits for http pings over
localhost on a URL that indicates a repository. When it arrives, it
will push the specified repository to the configured remote, thereby
making it a mirror that's almost live.
When a ping is received the job is put on a queue, and all mirror jobs are run in the background. A single background thread is used, so only one repository at a time is being mirrored (if the same repository is triggered again while a mirror job is still running, it will simply be pushed once more). Each job has a timeout of 60 seconds for the main repository and 30 seconds for pushing tags.
Configuration is done using the gitmirrord.ini file, where each
repository gets an entry of the form:
[repositoryname]
path=/some/where/to/therepo.git
remote=mirror
[bigrepository}
path=/some/where/to/bigrepo.git
remote=mirror
timeout=120
In this case, when a ping is received on /mirror/repositoryname
(either with GET or POST), the repository in
/some/where/to/therepo.git will be pushed to the remote named
mirror.