I want to have a local mirror/proxy for some repos I’m using.
The idea is having something I can point my reads to so that I’m free to migrate my upstream repositories whenever I want and also so that my stuff doesn’t stop working if some of the jankiest third-party repos I use disappears.
I know the various forjego/gitea/gitlab/… (well, at least some of them - I didn’t check the specifics) have pull mirroring, but I’m looking for something simpler… ideally something with a single config file where I list what to mirror and how often to update and which then allows anonymous read access over the network.
Does anything come to mind?
git
If only it were decentralized. We need a federated alternative.
Oh wait…
git-sync looks like it does at you’re looking for.
git is already a decentralized version control software. Your local git repos are mirrors by themselves.
Put some
git fetch
in a server crontab, and you’re done. You can access them via ssh if your user have permissions.A bash script would probably be easiest to write and pluck into cron.
Edit: Clone all repos you want into one directory and then loop with a script over all cloned dirs and issue
git fetch
. Done. If you want to add a repo you clone another.