Gitlab-mirror-pull automatically fetches and updates GitLab repositories.

Update your git repositories automatically when remote is set

• Adds a command to fetch repositories
• Run a tiny Webserver to integrate with Gitlabs webhooks
• Adds init script to /etc/init.d/gitlab-mirror-server
• Send mail on error or just for reporting

• Clone repository: git clone https://github.com/ochorocho/gitlab-mirror-pull.git
• Run bundler: bundle install
• Copy and modify config.example.yml to config.yml

./bin/gitlab-mirror-pull -c config.yml -l INFO

gem install gitlab-mirror-pull

⚠️ Make sure you run the script/server as git user. This is default for omnibus installation but may differ. In case you run the binary directly use this command sudo -u git -H gitlab-mirror-pull

see config.yml

gitlab-mirror-pull -c /path/to/config.yml

Default config location

/etc/gitlab-mirror-pull/config.yml

If you want to trigger periodically

* */1 * * *     git /usr/bin/ruby /usr/local/bin/gitlab-mirror-pull

Allow webhooks on localhost in gitlab (Admin -> Settings -> Outbound requests) and check Allow requests to the local network from hooks and services and hit save

Go to your porject -> Settings -> Integrations:

• Add URL http://localhost:8088/commit
• Leave Token empty
• Check Enable SSL verification
• Tick boxes to enable Triggers
• Run server sudo /etc/init.d/gitlab-mirror-server start

Logs

• /var/log/gitlab-mirror-server.err
• /var/log/gitlab-mirror-server.log

docker run -ti --rm -v "/absolute/path/to/repositories/":/repositories  -v "/absolute/path/to/config.docker.yml":/config.docker.yml ochorocho/gitlab-mirror-pull