Re: Way to "impersonate" remote or sync remotes without fetching everything?

From: Klaus Frank <vger.kernel.org@frank.fyi>
Date: Apr 11, 2025, 19:02 UTC
Message-ID: <669a6a0f-bcfb-4596-a0c8-73c722a6ec10@frank.fyi>
In-Reply-To: <CALnO6CCUHE6-RcZkTBYT-CeXHnYPBPe1eGSogWd7=5tK5NyuxA@mail.gmail.com>

On 2025-04-11 20:43:24, D. Ben Knoble wrote:

> Maybe I haven't totally understood your use-case, but what if the
> authoritative source is your local repository, and then you push to

There is no local repository, that's kinda the source of all of this. The sync script runs in a CI/CD. I'm kinda abusing CI/CD here to run a kind of cron job, in a separate repository that does the sync, maybe it is easier to just call it scheduled pipeline/action or just stateless cron job?

Lets make a more quick example:

gdm is being developed here: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gdm so in order to make a PR I'll have to create a fork in that GitLab instance so now we're at 2 repositories. Then I want to have my own independent archive mirror in my own gitlab instance. Then I also want to mirror it onto gitlab.com and github.com just for the sake of this example. Now we're at 5 remotes.

Now I'd like to have a script in CI/CD (that runs server side) to sync all of them. In example the gnome.org one could probably mostly be the autoritative source (except for the branches that contain my changes).