grok-manifest (1) Linux Manual Page

NAME

GROK-MANIFEST – Create manifest for use with grokmirror

SYNOPSIS

grok-manifest [opts] -m manifest.js[.gz] -t /path [/path/to/bare.git]

DESCRIPTION

Call grok-manifest from a git post-update or post-receive hook to create the latest repository manifest. This manifest file is downloaded by mirror slaves (if newer than what they already have) and used to only clone/pull the repositories that have changed since the mirror’s last run.

OPTIONS

–version

show program’s version number and exit

-h, –help

show this help message and exit

-m MANIFILE, –manifest=MANIFILE

Location of manifest.js or manifest.js.gz

-t TOPLEVEL, –toplevel=TOPLEVEL

Top dir where all repositories reside

-l LOGFILE, –logfile=LOGFILE

When specified, will put debug logs in this location

-c, –check-export-ok

Honor the git-daemon-export-ok magic file and do not export repositories not marked as such

-n, –use-now

Use current timestamp instead of parsing commits

-p, –purge

Purge deleted git repositories from manifest

-x, –remove

Remove repositories passed as arguments from the manifest file

-y, –pretty

Pretty-print the generated manifest (sort repos and add indentation). This is much slower, so should be used with caution on large collections.

-w, –wait-for-manifest

When running with arguments, wait if manifest is not there (can be useful when multiple writers are writing to the manifest file via NFS)

-i IGNORE, –ignore-paths=IGNORE

When finding git dirs, ignore these paths (can be used multiple times, accepts shell-style globbing)

-v, –verbose

Be verbose and tell us what you are doing

EXAMPLES

The examples assume that the repositories are located in /repos. If your repositories are in /var/lib/git, adjust both -m and -t flags accordingly.

Initial manifest generation:

/usr/bin/grok-manifest -m /repos/manifest.js.gz -t /repos

Inside the git hook:

/usr/bin/grok-manifest -m /repos/manifest.js.gz -t /repos -n `pwd`

To purge deleted repositories, use the -p flag when running from cron:

/usr/bin/grok-manifest -m /repos/manifest.js.gz -t /repos -p

You can also add it to the gitolite’s "rm" ADC using the -x flag:

/usr/bin/grok-manifest -m /repos/manifest.js.gz -t /repos -x $repo.git

To troubleshoot potential problems, you can pass -l parameter to grok-manifest, just make sure the user executing the hook command (user git or gitolite, for example) is able to write to that location:

/usr/bin/grok-manifest -m /repos/manifest.js.gz -t /repos \
    -l /var/log/git/grok-manifest-hook.log -n `pwd`

SEE ALSO

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grok-pull(1)

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git(1)

SUPPORT

Please send support requests to the mailing list:

http://lists.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/grokmirror

AUTHOR

mricon [at] kernel.org

License: GPLv3+

COPYRIGHT

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