superewald/gitlab-repo-mirror

Example repository for mirroring from github to gitlab using webhooks and pipeline triggers.

How-To

prepare gitlab project

1. create a project scoped access token with maintainer role and write_repository, api flags
2. create a project scoped ci variable named ACCESS_TOKEN and store the access token within
3. create a pipeline trigger token
4. add the following job to your .gitlab-ci.yml:

   mirror_repository:
       image: alpine
       variables:
           SRC_ORIGIN: https://github.com/path-to-your-repository
           DEST_ORIGIN: https://oauth2:[email protected]/path-to-your-repository
       stage: mirror
       only:
           - triggers
       before_script:
           - apk add git
           - git config user.name ci-bot
           - git config user.email "[email protected]"
       script:
           - git clone $SRC_ORIGIN gh-mirror
           - cd gh-mirror
           - git remote remove origin
           - git remote add origin $DEST_ORIGIN
           - git push --prune --all
           - git push --prune --tags

prepare github repository

1. create a webhook for push event and insert the pipeline trigger url as payload url