CODEWITHSUNDEEP
gitrepository-designsynchronization
maxigs
maxigs

Reputation: 916

How to synchronize Git Repositories across 2 Servers

I'm looking for a way to automatically synchronize Git repositories across (2) servers so they are interchangeable from a third point.

Situation is as follows: We heavily use git for all our projects, and some of the Repositories grow quite fast in size. Currently we have one central server and everyone is pushing/pulling to/from this one. However this all goes through the internet connection and therefore is not the fastest way.

The Idea: Put another server in the office, and have all the git repositories there for in-office-use. This server would need to be synchronized with the one on-line. At best the users would not even know which one they use via some dns-adjustment, so the address of the on-line server repositories resolves to the in-office-one when connected to the network there.

Is anyone already doing something similar out there? Or is there a easier way to accomplish the target.

Upvotes: 9

Views: 3839

Answers (2)

AsherMaximum
AsherMaximum

Reputation: 972

Gitolite has a feature that will mirror repositories. You could set up the one in the office as the master, and the online one as the slave, and allow pushing to either one.

Upvotes: 0

VonC
VonC

Reputation: 1323973

I would see such a mechnism easily done with the SSH protocol (meaning a framework like gitolite is in place both on the LAN repo and the WAN http repo), because then you can easily extend the ssh forced command mechanism to:

  • first check if the two repo are synchrone
  • reject the command if the local repo is less up-to-date than the remote one
  • synchronize the local repo with the remote one of needed

To do so with hooks is more complicated and would need to be carefully setup for each kind of server-side hooks in order to keep that synchronization mechanism up at all time.

Upvotes: 4

Related Questions