Re: Git mirror at gitlab

> Hey Patrick,
> 
> On December 21, 2023 12:48:12 p.m. GMT+01:00, Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> wrote:
> >On Thu, Dec 21, 2023 at 12:30:02PM +0100, Olliver Schinagl wrote:
> >> 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.
> >
> >Not to throw a wrench into this, but are you aware of the official
> >GitLab mirror at https://gitlab.com/git-vcs/git? I myself wasn't aware
> >of this mirror for a rather long time.
> 
> Not a wrench at all, and no, I didn't know. How old is it though :p
> could be that git-vcs was created cause I owned gitscm :)
> 
> I had chosen gitscm to match the official site, git-scm.org. the
> hyphen I left out because afaik it wasn't allowed on docker hub.

> >I also wondered whether we want to have https://gitlab.com/git/git as we
> >do on GitHub. I don't think anybody registered it, but it is blocked
> >from being registered as far as I can tell. Maybe we block the namespace
> >out of caution, I dunno. I can certainly check in with our SREs in case
> >it is something the Git project would like to own.
> 
> Yeah couldn't figure out who it was either ... hence gitscm.
> 
> Sadly gitlab doesn't support aliases :) I'm more then happy to hand
> over the space. Whatever name is decided to be best.