I had wanted to set up a way to easily get gitlab-mirrors set up and running, while managing multiple mirror groups easily. This lead me to create this repo, which more or less automated the installation of those scripts and group creation. If anything doesnt work, feel free to open an issue and Ill take a look at it. I am no way a professional at bash, so my code probably isn't the best and I am open for any PRs that may make it a better and a more streamlined set up. Have fun.

Every step below is needed to get this to work. Please read carefully and do everything it says. Refer to the original repo referenced at the bottom of this README in exactly how the mirroring works, and how you can configure it further than what my scripts will automatically configure for you.

NOTE: if you edit files within mirrormanagement folder, then the update script will overwrite your changes. Make sure to back them up, or open an issue and Ill add the option youre trying to add into the automation.

Prerequisites

Required software

• [Tested with GitLab 8.x/9.x/10/x][gitlab]
• [python-gitlab @ v1.1.0][python-gitlab]
• [GNU coreutils][coreutils]
• [git 1.8.0][git] or later

user setup

1. Create a user in your gitlab, name it gitmirror
2. Create a user on your linux machine, call it gitmirror by running: sudo adduser gitmirror

python-gitlab

sudo apt install python-pip then run pip install python-gitlab as your gitmirror user

Script Set Up

1. By default you are, but make sure you are in gitmirror's home directory by typing cd ~
2. Clone this repo by typing git clone https://github.com/Facinorous-420/gitmirrors-bs.git
3. Enter the new directory by typing cd gitmirrors-bs
4. Edit setup.conf by typing nano setup.conf
5. Give the setup script execute permissions by typing chmod u+x ./setup
   

Be sure to read the config and change all things to your desired specifications. Refer to the comments in that file for info on what everything is. Do not edit anything under the system variables section, only the user variables. You'll need to generate a Personal Access Token in the user gitmirror on gitlab for the config.

6. Run ./setup to begin the automatic set up process.
7. Once the set up is done, you will be given a SSH key. Login to your gitmirror account on your gitlab instance, and add that SSH key to it.
8. Run ./setcron to add the mirror cron jobs to the users cron table
9. Run ./creategroups to create all the groups inside of your gitlab automatically

Mirroring

Run ./mirror to set up a mirror

The full syntax for the command is ./mirror -g GROUPNAME -n REPONAME -r SOURCEREPOLOCATION

Where -g means destination group name, -n means destination repo name, and -r means source repo location

These scripts are meant for mirroring using HTTP not SSH. I'll add an option to pick between the two in the future.

The first time you run this command, it will ask you to enter the gitmirror details for your Gitlab instance. I'm going to try to make this as hands free as possible in the future.

If you at any time want to add more groups you can mirror to, simply add them to the setup.conf file and redo steps 6, 8, and 9 in the Scripts Set Up Section above.

Updating

You might find out that gitlab-mirror doesn't actually update that often as it's a pretty solid code base. Although, if it ever does, you can simply run ./update to update your project's gitlab-mirror.

File Structure

When done, the file structure in your system should look as such:

/home/gitmirror/gitmirrors-bs
├── mirrormanagement
│   ├── Group1
│   │ 
│   └── Group2
│ 
└── repositories
    ├── Group1
    │   ├── git
    │   ├── gitlabhq
    │   ├── gitlab-shell
    │   ├── nsca-ng
    │   ├── python-gitlab
    │   ├── ruby
    │   └── systems-svn
    └── Group2
        └── GitLab Enterprise Edition

Great Thanks

Great thanks to the original creator of gitlab-mirrors, samrocketman obviously as that is the main foundation to these bash scripts.