Redmine › SCM Creator (+Github)

This is a feature that I would love to see also.

I would imagine that 'GitHub’ would become a choice on the SCM type dropdown and if selected extra fields for the GitHub repository/user/token would showup. When filled in the scm-creator would then do a 'git clone --mirror [repositoryurl] [localpath/projectid]' which will pull down the repository from GitHub and setup RedMine to point to the local mirror. You’d have to look at where to store the github user/token. if it is a public github repository then the user/token is not required.

Using the GitHub_Hook redmine plugin the GitHub user would then be able to setup a post url in GitHub so that when they push a changeset to GitHub it would call that url to tell RedMine to fetch the latest changes into the mirrored repository.

Actually I was thinking about using Github URL directly... Without mirroring it localy.

That is an interesting approach. I understand with the new github API you can pull commit messages and even blobs, but how would you handle showing diffs or viewing source code in that scenario?

I think you understood me wrong...

A virtual Github repo type should be just Git repo. But it should be easier to add Git repo from Github using this virtual SCM.

Right now when I try adding Github URL I get:

fatal: Not a git repository: 'https://github.com/edavis10/redmine.git'

• http://www.redmine.org/boards/2/topics/25003
• https://www.chiliproject.org/boards/1/topics/525
• https://www.chiliproject.org/projects/chiliproject/wiki/HowTo_mirror_your_git_repository_on_Github

Am I right - Git supports only local repositories?..

Yes, git requires a local repository. I assumed you were trying to circumvent the built in git support with your own methods to pull directly from github. If not, then my suggestion would be to utilize one of the 3rd party ror implementations to allow for repo creation/deletion and then utilizing an update hook (or use a preexisting plugin like github hook) to tell redmine to update the local repo.

The Github client or Octokit can be used to implement this...

See also: RedmineRepositories#Create-the-bare-repository and HowTo_keep_in_sync_your_git_repository_for_redmine.