More git changes

I’ve been getting bogged down in a lot of infrastructure stuff since the announcement that gitorious.org will be/has been made read-only. Rather than choosing another provider and going through this again in a few years’ time, I’ve been setting up a self-hosted solution. It’s taken me a while to come up with a system that I’m happy with, since I have the following goals:

• Every repo should be clonable from a URL like http://chriswarbo.net/git/foo.git
• I should be able to push to any repo via SSH
• Nobody else should have write access (patches should be sent via git’s email integration)
• Every repo should have a basic Web interface at URLs like http://chriswarbo.net/git/foo/, eg. for browsing the code without cloning it
• As much as possible should work offline
• I shouldn’t have to reorganise every project
• There should be a separation between work in progress and “public” repos
• Deployment should be as automatic as possible

I think I’ve achieved what I’m after. My current setup is the following:

• Working directories
  • All the existing repos on my laptop
  • Private “work in progress” repos
  • Stay where they are, only the remote origin is changed to a local repo
• Local repos
  • Bare clones of each working directory
  • “Pristine”, as they only contain committed code
  • Remote origin set to online repo
  • post-receive hook pushes changes online
• Online repos
  • Duplicates of the local repos, but on chriswarbo.net server
  • post-receive hook regenerates HTML
• Online HTML
  • Static Web interface generated by git2html
• chriswarbo.net/git
  • Contains symlinks to all online repos, of the form foo.git/
  • Contains symlinks to all online HTML, of the form foo/

As well as this, I’ve written a few scripts to make it easier to add new repos to this system; to regenerate all metadata/HTML/etc. for all repos; and so on. Ironically these aren’t in git yet, but will be now that they’ve settled down.

I still need to automate the addition of READMEs to my repos list, but this looks pretty stable now :)