redmine_repository_fetch

Redmine plugin to automatically clone and fetch referenced repositories.

Installation

Currently the plugin hardcodes this config, change it for your use-case:

   PATTERNS = [
     {  :pattern => "/redmine_git_fetch/github.com/",
        :uri_prefix => "git@github.com:",
        :host => "github.com",
        :key => "/home/redmine/data/keys/id_rsa"
     },
     {  :pattern => "/redmine_git_fetch/gitlab.com/",
        :uri_prefix => "git@gitlab.com:",
        :host => "gitlab.com",
        :key => "/home/redmine/data/keys/id_rsa"
     },
     {  :pattern => "/redmine_git_fetch/git.ewdev.ca/",
        :uri_prefix => "git@git.ewdev.ca:",
        :host => "git.ewdev.ca",
        :key => "/home/redmine/data/keys/id_rsa"
     }
   ]

Be sure to populate the appropriate keys for your redmine user (www-data, redmine, etc), either in ~/.ssh or in the place specified by the PATTERNS[x][:key] property.

Usage

Add /redmine_git_fetch/github.com/evolvingweb/sitediff.git to a repo. The plugin will automatically detect the prefix /redmine_git_fetch/github.com/ and figure out it needs to clone git@github.com:evolvingweb/sitediff.git. If it's already cloned it will fetch instead. In all cases you need to specify a path to a private key to use, since all clones happen over SSH.

Note that /redmine_git_fetch folder will get auto-created.

The plugin currently doesn't fetch any repos outside its purview.

It also needs to be run as follows, probably from cron:

bundle exec rails runner "RepositoryFetch.fetch" -e production

Tested on Redmine 2.6.