installation.md

Installation and Setup

This assumes you have already satisfied all prerequisites.

Create a system user called gitmirror and generate SSH keys.

adduser gitmirror
su - gitmirror
ssh-keygen

Create ~/.ssh/config for the gitmirror user. Add your GitLab server host and the user used to talk to GitLab.

Host gitlab.example.com
    User git

Create a gitmirror user in gitlab. Set up the SSH keys with the gitmirror user in GitLab. Obtain the Private token from the user.

Clone the gitlab-mirrors repository and set values in config.sh.

su - gitmirrors
mkdir repositories
touch private_token
git clone https://github.com/sag47/gitlab-mirrors.git
cd gitlab-mirrors
chmod 755 *.sh
cp config.sh.SAMPLE config.sh

Modify the values in config.sh for your setup. Be sure to add your private token for the gitmirror user in gitlab to ~/private_token of your gitmirror system user.

Once you have set up your config.sh let's add the git-mirrors.sh script to crontab. Just execute crontab -e and add the following value to it.

@hourly /home/gitmirror/gitlab-mirrors/git-mirrors.sh

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Next up is Managing mirrored repositories