Git Sync

Git sync is a tool that I have written to keep my custom hosted git repo in sync with multiple different sources. It can pull from places such as github at a set interval as well as push to any git, http, https, or ssh repository. Additinally I have added some features for populating metadata on cgit repositories that you can turn on if you want.

This works on all OS but hot reloading of config on windows doesn't work.

Config

Here is an example config file with secrets replaced. To validate your config you can run git-sync -validate -config file.yaml.

---
interval: 3600
path: /var/lib/repos
repos:
- url: https://review.coreboot.org/coreboot.git
  type: fetch_mirror
  path: /var/lib/repos/mirrors/coreboot
  extras:
    cgitowner: coreboot
    cgitsection: mirrors
  metadata:
  - cgit
- url: https://anongit.gentoo.org/git/repo/gentoo.git
  type: fetch_mirror
  path: /var/lib/repos/mirrors/gentoo
  extras:
    cgitowner: gentoo
    cgitsection: mirrors
  metadata:
  - cgit
- url: https://github.com/michaeljs1990/collins-go-cli.git
  type: push_mirror
  path: /var/lib/repos/xrt0x/collins-go-cli
  httpauth:
    user: michaeljs1990
    token: some-token
  remote: github_mirror
github:
- username: michaeljs1990
  httpauth:
    user: michaeljs1990
    token: some-token
  repos: true
  metadata:
  - cgit

Sync Types

push_mirror - Push from the local path provided to the given URL to keep them in sync.

fetch_mirror - Pull from the url provided and place it at the provided path.

github - pull all repos located under the provided username to the top level path.

Example

Run one time to test out your config

git-sync -config config.yaml -verbose -oneshot

Start the proces as a long running service

git-sync -config config.yaml -log_file git_sync.log

Log to file as JSON

git-sync -config config.yaml -log_file git_sync.log -log_format json

Run multiple workers to speed things up

git-sync -config config.yaml -log_file git_sync.log -log_format json -workers 10

Validate your config

git-sync -validate

Signals

You can reload the config file for your git-sync process with the use of usr1. This will validate the config before doing the reload so if you have a bad config it will just output an error but keep running with the old config.

If you are excited to have something pushed out or want a new update you can hit git-sync with usr2. This will cause it to sync all repositories again that it knows about.

Development

Test with golang 1.11 - 1.16

Feature List

Feature	Done	Wishful
Clone repositories from bitbucket		X
Clone repositories from gitlab		X
Add unit tests		X
Add file watching for push repos		X
Clone repositories from github	X
Push repo over http auth	X
Pull repo over http auth	X
Push repo over git protocol	X
Pull repo over git protocol	X
Push repo over SSH protocol	X
SSH user/pass auth	X
SSH private key auth	X
Pull repo over SSH protocol	X
Config validation	X
Prometheus metrics	X
Hot config reloading	X
Force syncing without process restart	X
Populate some cgit metadata	X