On Thu, Dec 21, 2023 at 12:48:12PM +0100, Patrick Steinhardt wrote:

On Thu, Dec 21, 2023 at 12:30:02PM +0100, Olliver Schinagl wrote:

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Hey list,

For years, I wanted (tried, but time) to run the mirror for git on gitlab.
Actually, the original idea was to run a docker container ([0] 10k+ pulls
:p)

I initially set this up via docker build containers, where docker hub would
pull my mirror of the git repo. My mirror, because I added a Dockerfile
which was enough for docker to do its trick. I was planning (time ..) on
submitting this upstream to the list, but never did. Because of me not doing
that, I had to manually (I was even too lazy to script it) rebase the
branch. Docker then did some changes to their business, where the docker
builds where not possible anymore.

So then I figured, I'll do the same on gitlab and push it to the docker hub.
Thus I setup a mirror on gitlab [1], with the idea to work there on it.

Again, I never got around to finalize this work, mostly because the docker
container 'just worked' for pretty much everything. After all, git is very
stable overal.

So very interestingly, last month commit 0e3b67e2aa25edb ("ci: add support
for GitLab CI") landed, which started to trigger pipeline jobs!

Sadly, this only worked for 3 builds, as that's when the minutes ran out :)

So one, I would very much like to offer the registered names (cause they are
pretty nice in name) to here, so people can use and find it.

Not to throw a wrench into this, but are you aware of the official
GitLab mirror at https://gitlab.com/git-vcs/git? I myself wasn't aware
of this mirror for a rather long time.

I also wondered whether we want to have https://gitlab.com/git/git as we
do on GitHub. I don't think anybody registered it, but it is blocked
from being registered as far as I can tell. Maybe we block the namespace
out of caution, I dunno. I can certainly check in with our SREs in case
it is something the Git project would like to own.

Circling back on this topic: https://gitlab.com/git is unfortunately
taken, so it's out of question. I'd say the most pragmatic thing to do
would thus be to retain the already-existing location of the official
mirror at GitLab.

I'm still trying to reach Ævar so that we can collaborate and set up CI
for that mirror.

Patrick