Ability to automatically push to remote mirror repository

[yanjiew1]

I like the feature of mirroring the repositories by pulling the remote repositories.

Is it possible to make gitea to push local repositories to remote mirror repositories?

It's nice if gitea is able to automatically push local repositories to remote mirror repositories such as github, gitlab or other git services.

[mxmehl]

Good idea, I have been looking for such a option already.

IMHO this would increase adoption of Gitea. People would be more inclined to using Gitea if they knew that they could easily mirror stuff to GitLab/Github without having to fiddle with hooks.

I'm also pretty interested in this, and wouldn't mind having a go at implementing it if someone could point me in the right direction!

[thehowl]

Right now I am doing this on a project of mine. Since I am the admin of the instance, I have access to the git hooks of the repos, and I can add this as the post-receive hook:

#!/bin/bash
git push --mirror --quiet https://user:token@github.com/osuripple/hanayo.git &> /dev/null
echo 'osuripple/hanayo updated'

Of course, this is just a hack, and a proper mechanism would be gladly appreciated.

[ulm0]

this would be a really nice feature to have in Gitea, please!

Yeah this would be an amazingly useful feature!

Is this really just a limitation of other systems disguised to look like a feature in Gitea? If Webhooks can do it why run the risk and adding complexity trying to make Gitea manage features absent from other products?

Now, if we could have an SVN push mirror that would be extremely useful use case for the ad hoc nature of the umptysquillion poorly managed WordPress SVN repos in existence today who would gladly being porting over go Gitea to simplify their workflow and reduce premature aging.

[snth]

@thehowl Thanks. I made a slight modification so I don't have to wait for the push to the mirror to complete (which can be slow).

#!/bin/bash
git push --mirror --quiet https://user:token@github.com/osuripple/hanayo.git &> /dev/null &
echo 'osuripple/hanayo update initiated.'

Of course now you no longer have a confirmation that the push succeeded but a main motivation for my use case of gitea was to avoid the long lags of updates to slow remote hosts.

[pklapperich]

The git hook trick won't work for mirror repos. And a lot of services don't respond to inbound webhooks, for example gitea itself doesn't, a simple ssh server acting as a git remote, etc. Having this built in would be useful.

[lunny]

You have to store the token or private key on gitea if we implement that.

[chotaire]

This is a very interesting feature!

[belliash]

+1

[HarvsG]

This would be a very useful feature. It would be great to have a system where users could develop a project on our hosted Gitea instance and then 'publish' it to a public git service by setting it up as a mirrored repo.