repository to. Add a block like the following to ``git-mirror.conf``::
[repo-name]
- owner = post@ralfj.de
+ owner = email@example.com
local = /home/git/repositories/repo-name.git
deploy-key = ssh-key
mirror-a = git@server2.example.com:repo-name.git
Here, ``local`` has to be set to the path where the repository is stored
locally. ``deploy-key`` is the name of the SSH key used for pushing the changes
-to other repositories. ``owner`` is the e-mail-address that error messages
-occurring during synchronization are sent to. And finally, the URLs to push to
-are given by ``mirror-<something>``. If these other servers also run gitolite
-and have a symmetric setup, then no matter where a change is pushed, git-mirror
-will forward it to all the other repositories.
+to other repositories. ``owner`` is the e-mail-address that errors occurring
+during synchronization are sent to. And finally, the URLs to push to are given
+by ``mirror-<something>``. If these other servers also run gitolite and have a
+symmetric setup, then no matter where a change is pushed, git-mirror will
+forward it to all the other repositories.
Setup (GitHub)
--------------
-This explains how to configure a GitHub repository that should be part of a
-synchronized set. I will assume that one of the copies of the repository lives
-on a gitolite server you control.
+If one of the to-be-synced repositories is on GitHub, you can obviously not use
+the procedure above to sync changes that are arriving at GitHub, to the other
+repositories. Instead, we will use a webhook, such that GitHub tells your server
+that a change happened, and then your server can pull the changes to its local
+repository and synchronize all the others. This assumes that the server running
+the webhook also hosts one of the copies of the git repository.
-Since you cannot install a normal git hook on GitHub, syncing changes that are
-sent to GitHub has to be done with a webhook. First of all, you will have to
-configure your webserver to run ``webhook.py`` as CGI script. Consult the
-webserver documentation for more details.
+First of all, you will have to configure your webserver to run ``webhook.py`` as
+CGI script. Consult the webserver documentation for more details.
Secondly, ``webhook.py`` needs to be able to find the main git-mirror scripts,
and it needs to be able to execute them as the ``git`` user. For the first
Now you can call the automatic setup script as follows::
- ./github-add-hooks.py -o UserName -e email@ddress.com -l ~/repositories/repo-name.git/ -n github-repo-name
+ ./github-add-hooks.py -o UserName -e email@example.com -l ~/repositories/repo-name.git/ -n github-repo-name
Notice that the username is case-sensitive! This will do all the setup on the
GitHub side, and it will add an appropriate configuration block to your local
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