GROK-MANIFEST(2013-04-26)

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

-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

•   grok-pull(1)

•   git(1)

SUPPORT

Please send support requests to the mailing list:

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

AUTHOR
mricon@kernel.org License: GPLv3+

COPYRIGHT
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