gytrell

gtyrell is a tiny server that periodically synchronizes a set of Git repositories.

Requirements

  • Git
  • A JRE supporting Java 7 or greater.

Building

$ mvn clean package

Running

Compilation produces a jar file containing all of the dependencies.

$ java -jar io7m-gtyrell-server/target/io7m-gtyrell-server-0.1.0-main.jar
usage: server.conf [logback.xml]
      

The program accepts a configuration file and an optional Logback configuration file to control logging. The default is to log everything.

The gtyrell configuration file is in Java Properties format:

# The base directory to which repository directories will be written
com.io7m.gtyrell.server.directory       = /git/com.github

# The path to the Git executable
com.io7m.gtyrell.server.git_executable  = /usr/bin/git

# The time to pause between synchronization attempts
com.io7m.gtyrell.server.pause_duration  = 0h 15m 0s

# A list of repository sources
com.io7m.gtyrell.server.repository_sources = github0

# A GitHub repository source
com.io7m.gtyrell.server.repository_source.github0.type     = github
com.io7m.gtyrell.server.repository_source.github0.user     = someone
com.io7m.gtyrell.server.repository_source.github0.password = enoemos123
      

The above configuration will cause the server to authenticate to the GitHub API as someone using the password enoemos123, and retrieve a list of all of the repositories owned by the user. For each repository r, it will then clone r to /git/com.github/someone/r.git if it has not yet been cloned, or fetch updates to r if it has. When all updates have been performed, it will pause for 15 minutes before trying again.

Currently, only GitHub is supported as a repository source, and only in the authenticated per-user manner specified.