From: Ralf Jung Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2015 09:48:25 +0000 (+0200) Subject: some more README work X-Git-Url: https://git.ralfj.de/git-mirror.git/commitdiff_plain/fb62ddc8232972e0d22a4fd512343b34e1bdfd50?ds=sidebyside;hp=--cc some more README work --- fb62ddc8232972e0d22a4fd512343b34e1bdfd50 diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst index 2518498..3842308 100644 --- a/README.rst +++ b/README.rst @@ -102,12 +102,12 @@ found.``. The next step is to add this as a webhook to the GitHub repository you want to sync with, to create a fresh SSH key and configure it as deployment key for the repository, and to configure git-mirror accordingly. For additional security, -one shouldalso configure a shared HMAC secret, such that the webhook can verify +one should also configure a shared HMAC secret, such that the webhook can verify that the data indeed comes from GitHub. To make your job easier, there is a script ``github-add-hooks.py`` that can do all this for you. It assumes that the repository exists on the GitHub side, but -has not yet been configure for git-mirror, neither locally nor remotely. +has not yet been configured for git-mirror at all. To give the script access to your repositories, you need to create an access token for it. Go to "Personal Access Tokens" in your GitHub configuration, and @@ -120,12 +120,15 @@ below ``mail-sender``):: Now you can call the automatic setup script as follows:: - ./github-add-hooks.py -o UserName -e email@example.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 -``git-mirror.conf``. You will still have to manually add the local git hook to -gitolite. +``git-mirror.conf``. You still have to manually add the local git hook to +gitolite. Once you are done, any push happening to either gitolite or GitHub +will be visible on the other side immediately. This applies even to pull +requests that you merge in the GitHub web interface. Source, License ---------------