winstonli/writelatex-git-bridge

Bridge between WriteLatex and Git.

writelatex-git-bridge's Issues

automatically generated post back URL may be on a private IP

Currently, the server appears to generate the postback URL automatically, based on an IP address of the machine it's running on. If the machine has multiple IP addresses, it may pick up a private IP address, so the API can't post back to it. It's probably easiest to let the postback root be specified as a config setting.

add configuration settings for SSL

It looks like we may want to be able to specify an SSL certificate to Jetty after all. Is this easy to do?

null pointer exception in Util.deleteInDirectoryApartFrom

How to reproduce: see test in pull request to follow shortly (#11).

filemode changes without asking

As I reported in overleaf/overleaf#765, the git bridge Overleaf uses (which I believe to be this one? their fork does not accept issues) changes the filemode from 100755 to 100644 without asking the user. This creates tension between overleaf and non-overleaf users of the same git repository---people add executable permissions intentionally, and the bridge undoes them.

unhelpful error message when trying to clone a protected projects

Since protected projects aren't yet supported, you can't yet clone them. At the moment, we seem to give the generic 'fatal: remote error: Overleaf server not available. Please try again later.' message. It would be better to give a more specific message if possible.

Does this require additional API support?

can we use bare repos to save a bit of disk space?

At the moment, all of the files from the current snap shot are stored in the repo directory. If we can avoid storing them, that will reduce disk usage and give us more options for how we store the repos.

kill the server more gently

Maybe something like this would be safer:

start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --retry=TERM/60/KILL/5 --pidfile $PIDFILE --name $NAME

the apiKey setting can be removed

We'll just use the basic auth settings to restrict access for now. Better overleaf API support is coming soon, and we can add the appropriate settings then.