Pull-replication from a non-gerrit server

[Kenny Ho]

Does pull-replication plugin work with non-Gerrit remote?  Reading the documentation, it is not clear to me where the plugin will place mirrored repos.  I thought may be the name in remote.NAME specify the local repo path but then the docs say "NAME portion is unused by this plugin".  Or does the plugin reads pull-replication.config in refs/meta/config in the local project?

Thanks.

[Luca Milanesio]

> On 17 Jun 2024, at 21:56, Kenny Ho <y2k...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Does pull-replication plugin work with non-Gerrit remote?

Yes, that was the main reason why I created the plugin years ago :-)

> Reading the documentation, it is not clear to me where the plugin will place mirrored repos. I thought may be the name in remote.NAME specify the local repo path but then the docs say "NAME portion is unused by this plugin".

I believe you misread the documentation: “name” refers to the name of the subsection, not the {name} expansion in the URL.

> Or does the plugin reads pull-replication.config in refs/meta/config in the local project?

pull-replication.config in refs/meta/config? Where did the documentation mention it?
I am the author of the plugin and not recall putting any configs in refs/meta/config of the project.

Luca.

[Kenny Ho]

ok... so I must be missing some part of the documentation. 

If I have a "remote-host.xyz/org/projectA.git" and want to put it into local gerrit project named "mirror/upstream/project-a", how should I make the configuration?  I guess I am confused about where ${name} gets its value if it's not NAME (that's why I speculated about refs/meta/config but I guess that's not correct.)

Kenny

[Luca Milanesio]

> On 17 Jun 2024, at 22:58, Kenny Ho <y2k...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> ok... so I must be missing some part of the documentation.
>
> If I have a "remote-host.xyz/org/projectA.git" and want to put it into local gerrit project named "mirror/upstream/project-a", how should I make the configuration? I guess I am confused about where ${name} gets its value if it's not NAME (that's why I speculated about refs/meta/config but I guess that's not correct.)

{name} is the local project name that you can use for associating to the remote repository.

If your local project name is 'mirror/upstream/project-a’ and the remote project name 'org/projectA.git’ then I don’t see much in common.
In that case, you can’t use the {name} in the URL I believe.

Luca.

[Kenny Ho]

ok, so if I specify remote.NAME.url to "remote-host.xyz/org/projectA.git", where would I specify "mirror/upstream/project-a"?

Kenny

[Kenny Ho]

Hi Luca,

I think I am missing something really obvious.  If I want to mirror https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/ into gerrit with pull-replication plugin, what would the config look like?  (or is pull-replication the wrong tool to use?)

Kenny

[Luca Milanesio]

On 24 Jun 2024, at 15:38, Kenny Ho <y2k...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Luca,

I think I am missing something really obvious.  If I want to mirror https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/ into gerrit with pull-replication plugin, what would the config look like?  (or is pull-replication the wrong tool to use?)

See a sample configuration at [1]

In your example, it would be:

[remote “linux”]

  url = https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/${name}.git/ 

  projects = linux

The above would replicate https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git into the local repository linux.git

HTH

Luca.

[1] https://gerrit.googlesource.com/plugins/pull-replication/+/refs/heads/master/src/main/resources/Documentation/config.md

Kenny

On Tuesday, June 18, 2024 at 12:59:52 AM UTC-4 Kenny Ho wrote:

ok, so if I specify remote.NAME.url to "remote-host.xyz/org/projectA.git", where would I specify "mirror/upstream/project-a"?

Kenny

On Monday, June 17, 2024 at 7:35:27 PM UTC-4 Luca Milanesio wrote:

> On 17 Jun 2024, at 22:58, Kenny Ho <y2k...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> ok... so I must be missing some part of the documentation.
>
> If I have a "remote-host.xyz/org/projectA.git" and want to put it into local gerrit project named "mirror/upstream/project-a", how should I make the configuration? I guess I am confused about where ${name} gets its value if it's not NAME (that's why I speculated about refs/meta/config but I guess that's not correct.)

{name} is the local project name that you can use for associating to the remote repository.

If your local project name is 'mirror/upstream/project-a’ and the remote project name 'org/projectA.git’ then I don’t see much in common.
In that case, you can’t use the {name} in the URL I believe.

Luca.

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[Kenny Ho]

Ahhh!  the remote.NAME.projects is the obvious thing that I missed.  The documentation say "specifies which repositories should be replicated from the remote" and that threw me off.  Thanks for the help!