Gitlab Mirror will watch a GitLab group and keep it in sync with external git repositories.

1. Create group on your gitlab instance or gitlab.com. e.g. mirror-test
2. Add a repository you like to sync to. e.g my-project
3. Add a description to the project in YAML format containing an origin field. e.g. origin: https://git.example.org/my-project.git
4. Execute set the GITLAB_PRIVATE_TOKEN environment variable a personal access token or your private token and execute git-mirror

export GITLAB_PRIVATE_TOKEN="<personal-access-token>"
git-mirror -g mirror-test

This will sync the group mirror-test on gitlab.com. If you want to sync a group on a different GitLab instance, use the -u flag.

git-mirror -g mirror-test -u http://gitlab.example.org

git-mirror allows to execute multiple mirror jobs in parallel using the -c <n> flag.

git-mirror -g mirror-test -c 8

This will execute at most 8 sync jobs in parallel

For git-mirror to mirror a repository it needs to know where to sync from. In order to achive this git-mirror expects the description field of a mirrored project to be valid YAML with at least an origin field.

origin: https://git.example.org/my-project.git

A list of currently supported fields

• origin Source repository to mirror from
• skip Temporarily exclude a project from syncing by adding skip: true
• destination Reserved for future use

Any other fields are ignored

There is also a docker image available. It can be used as follows:

docker run -e GITLAB_PRIVATE_TOKEN="x" bachp/git-mirror git-mirror -g mirror -u http://gitlab.example.com

In order to build this project you need a least rust v1.18.0. The easiest way to get rust is via: rustup.rs

The project can be built using cargo

cargo build

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details