Feature #1793
Allow the creation of non-local repositories
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Description
It would be nice if the plugin could create non-local repositories like reposman.rb.
I don’t know how difficult this may be but if is doable this plugin will shine in contrast to
reposman.rb. I say this because i find SCM Creator very delicate, robust and better polished addition to Redmine.
Regards, Stef
History
#1 Updated by Andriy Lesyuk over 13 years ago
- Status changed from New to Incomplete
Thank you very much for your nice feedback, Stef!
Unfortunately it’s not such easy as it may seem to be...
Actually reposman.rb
also creates local repositories (it just runs on the server where repositories get created and adds repositories to remote Redmine). To do the opposite I will need to create a Web service for creating repos remotely...
SCM Creator is like a reposman.rb
integrated into Redmine. To create repos on remote server the SCM creator will need to contact some service (e.g. web service) and provide parameters for creating a repo, then get a result and register remote repo if success.
So the web service (or similar) should be used... And the questions is: will users be ready to install such service (saying authenticated with keys like Redmine does for repo registration)? This can be a security issue, some Git hosts may not run web server etc... For example, you - how do you like such solution?
Anyway it’s a good idea to think about... So not closing the issue...
#2 Updated by Andriy Lesyuk almost 13 years ago
Maybe it’s possible to use SSH client... Saying config can have:
git:
path: /var/lib/git
git: /usr/bin/git
ssh:
host: subversion.andriylesyuk.com
port: 22
key: /usr/share/redmine/config/subversion_rsa.pub
username: s-andy
password: test
Then SCM Creator connects to the remove host and generally does the same...
#4 Updated by Terence Miller over 12 years ago
Hi Andriy, you solutin is very good i think because ist gerneral an will work for all protocols straight forward.
Another way would be to support scm own remote admin tools, like svnadmin which will work from 1.7 also from remote machines. Dunno if the other scms also have such tooling embedded.
Anyway if scm managment is completly done by the redine server it would be fat easiert to setup and maintain. No redmine specific reposman & cron setup on scmk server beyond the scm config itsel will be needed.
I am voting for this great ehancemen in any way
Tx for contributing!
#5 Updated by Terence Miller over 12 years ago
any updates on this?
#6 Updated by Terence Miller about 11 years ago
Is this supported with new version?
#7 Updated by Andriy Lesyuk about 11 years ago
#8 Updated by Milos Kozak over 10 years ago
Hello, you are right with the webservice, but what about gitolite, gitosis or even gitlab? These three are the most often used ones for SSH based GIT management, so I find it worthy to consider them as the remote “webservice” in order to create remote repository..
I see that it limits such functionality to git only, but
If you had some time I would be happy to donate for this GIT feature!