appendix A: example cronjob based mirroring

Let's say you have some repos that are very active. You're pushing halfway across the world every few seconds, but those slaves do not need to be that closely updated, perhaps because they are halfway across the world and those guys are asleep ;-)

You'd like to update them once an hour instead. Here's how you might do that.

First add this line to the configuration for those repos:

config gitolite.mirror.hourly = "slave1 slave2 slave3"

Then write a cron job that looks like this (untested).

#!/bin/bash

REPO_BASE=`${0%/*}/gl-query-rc REPO_BASE`

cd $REPO_BASE
find . -type d -name "*.git" -prune | while read r
do
    # get reponame as gitolite knows it
    r=${r:2}
    r=${r%.git}

    gl-mirror-shell request-push $r gitolite.mirror.hourly

    # that command backgrounds the push, so you'd best wait a few seconds
    # before hitting the next one, otherwise you'll have all your repos
    # going out at once!
    sleep 10
done