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?

  • vsis@feddit.clEnglish
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    3 months ago

    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.

  • i_uuuh_what@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Hey, that’s almost what I made Gire for. It doesn’t support completely anonymous reads though (requires SSH keys for auth).

  • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.deEnglish
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    3 months ago

    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.

    • shnizmuffin@lemmy.inbutts.lolEnglish
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      3 months ago

      This can be made even simpler by installing all the repos you want to mirror as submodules of the parent directory’s git repository. Instead of many git pull or git fetch, you blast a single git submodule update --recursive --remote and go about your day.

      Bonus: This has the added benefit of generating a git history for your automated process if you script in a commit message with a timestamp, making your mirrors reversible.