Git mirror at gitlab

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.

Two, hopefully get Patrick Steinhardt to help out to get unlimited minutes and storage on the repo :)

Three, see what the opinion of people here is on this. I'll do the work to get the dockerfile (now containerfile, we're inclusive after all) merged, and the CI file updated to create, store (and push to docker hub) the generated containers.

Thanks, Olliver

[0]: https://hub.docker.com/r/gitscm/git [1]: https://gitlab.com/gitscm/git

P.S. I'm not subscribed, so please keep me in the CC :)