arrdem / giternity

giternity

Giternity is a tool to mirror git repositories from GitHub. You can specify a username/organization to mirror all their repositories, or just individual repos. It retrieves some repo metadata so they can be nicely served with cgit. Run giternity periodically to update the mirrors.

An example result is git.cpu.re. Follow the tutorial to host your own.

Installation

Giternity is packaged via PyPi, the Python Package Index. Required packages:

Python 3
Python 3 pip (if your distro packages it separately)
git

sudo pip3 install giternity

Usage

$ giternity --help
usage: giternity.py [-h] [--version] [--dry-run] [-c CONFIG_FILE]
                    [--log-level [LOG_LEVEL]]

Mirror git repositories and retrieve metadata for cgit.

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --version             show program's version number and exit
  --dry-run             show a plan for archiving repositories and exit
  -c CONFIG_FILE, --config CONFIG_FILE
                        configuration file for giternity.py
  --log-level [LOG_LEVEL]
                        Set the logging output level. ['CRITICAL', 'ERROR',
                        'WARNING', 'INFO', 'DEBUG']

Homepage: https://github.com/rahiel/giternity

Configuration

The configuration file by default is located at /etc/giternity.toml. See the example giternity.toml for a list of all options.

With the configuration in place you simply run giternity, or giternity -c $YOUR_CONFIG_FILE if you want to place it somewhere else.

cron

Giternity is intended for use as an unsupervised cron. See the example giternity.cron for a possible /etc/cron.d/giternity.

Note that it is recommended to run Giternity as an unprivileged or "sandbox" user if possible. For example one could have a git-data group which owns the /srv/git data directory. http (for cgit), git (for gitosis, gitolite or just bare git-shell) and giternity could all be group members.

cgit

Your git mirrors are now suitable to serve with cgit. Customize your /etc/cgitrc as you like and add the following to the bottom:

# the giternity git_data_path as you configured it
scan-path=/srv/git/
# giternity writes this file to track the last-modified date of mirroed repos
agefile=info/web/last-modified
# infer section (github user / group) from the first repo path segment
section-from-path=1