automatically pushing sourceforge commits to github

Question

I would like my sourceforge git repository be mirrored automatically on github.

Whenever I push (or anybody else with write access) something to sourceforge, the commit should "appear" on github.

There are two restrictions:

• the pushing user should not need to do any configuration on their side (e.g. adding two remotes and pushing to both is not a solution)

• i would like to go without any intermedia service I have to setup myself (e.g. a server that listens for webhook events from sf, then does a checkout of the updated repo, and pushes the changeset to github)

I have searched long and far but haven't found anything satisfying yet...

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Sourceforge webhooks are generally the right way to put in place some mirroring feature.

But since you don't won't webhook, nor do you want a client-side config, then you would still need to put in place somewhere a "pulling service" that would, on regular interval, fetch from the sourceforge repo and, if any new commit is detected, git push --mirror to github.

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the question was mainly whether sf can talk directly to github to trigger a "pull" on github.

No, Sf does not talk directly to GitHub.