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author | Douwe Maan <douwe@gitlab.com> | 2015-12-09 00:34:03 +0300 |
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committer | Douwe Maan <douwe@gitlab.com> | 2015-12-09 00:34:03 +0300 |
commit | 8fb49a4b7005d7e57bb84d6fe5db97ff39d1064b (patch) | |
tree | 38118628101e0b9281a07c295d15d0c9f075197b /doc | |
parent | f39ff54290abe224b0b79accc0da48c1cd2d2109 (diff) | |
parent | e616739e2fae12e5358d2cea40089a51468d9b4a (diff) |
Merge branch 'master' into merge-if-green
# Conflicts:
# app/views/projects/merge_requests/widget/_heading.html.haml
# app/views/projects/merge_requests/widget/open/_accept.html.haml
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-rw-r--r-- | doc/api/groups.md | 70 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | doc/integration/ldap.md | 8 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | doc/operations/moving_repositories.md | 180 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | doc/raketasks/list_repos.md | 30 |
4 files changed, 284 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/api/groups.md b/doc/api/groups.md index 0b9f6406d8d..808675d8605 100644 --- a/doc/api/groups.md +++ b/doc/api/groups.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # Groups
-## List project groups
+## List groups
Get a list of groups. (As user: my groups, as admin: all groups)
@@ -21,6 +21,70 @@ GET /groups You can search for groups by name or path, see below.
+
+## List a group's projects
+
+Get a list of projects in this group.
+
+```
+GET /groups/:id/projects
+```
+
+Parameters:
+
+- `archived` (optional) - if passed, limit by archived status
+- `order_by` (optional) - Return requests ordered by `id`, `name`, `path`, `created_at`, `updated_at` or `last_activity_at` fields. Default is `created_at`
+- `sort` (optional) - Return requests sorted in `asc` or `desc` order. Default is `desc`
+- `search` (optional) - Return list of authorized projects according to a search criteria
+- `ci_enabled_first` - Return projects ordered by ci_enabled flag. Projects with enabled GitLab CI go first
+
+```json
+[
+ {
+ "id": 4,
+ "description": null,
+ "default_branch": "master",
+ "public": false,
+ "visibility_level": 0,
+ "ssh_url_to_repo": "git@example.com:diaspora/diaspora-client.git",
+ "http_url_to_repo": "http://example.com/diaspora/diaspora-client.git",
+ "web_url": "http://example.com/diaspora/diaspora-client",
+ "tag_list": [
+ "example",
+ "disapora client"
+ ],
+ "owner": {
+ "id": 3,
+ "name": "Diaspora",
+ "created_at": "2013-09-30T13: 46: 02Z"
+ },
+ "name": "Diaspora Client",
+ "name_with_namespace": "Diaspora / Diaspora Client",
+ "path": "diaspora-client",
+ "path_with_namespace": "diaspora/diaspora-client",
+ "issues_enabled": true,
+ "merge_requests_enabled": true,
+ "builds_enabled": true,
+ "wiki_enabled": true,
+ "snippets_enabled": false,
+ "created_at": "2013-09-30T13: 46: 02Z",
+ "last_activity_at": "2013-09-30T13: 46: 02Z",
+ "creator_id": 3,
+ "namespace": {
+ "created_at": "2013-09-30T13: 46: 02Z",
+ "description": "",
+ "id": 3,
+ "name": "Diaspora",
+ "owner_id": 1,
+ "path": "diaspora",
+ "updated_at": "2013-09-30T13: 46: 02Z"
+ },
+ "archived": false,
+ "avatar_url": "http://example.com/uploads/project/avatar/4/uploads/avatar.png"
+ }
+]
+```
+
## Details of a group
Get all details of a group.
@@ -186,7 +250,7 @@ To get more (up to 100), pass the following as an argument to the API call: /groups?per_page=100
```
-And to switch pages add:
+And to switch pages add:
```
/groups?per_page=100&page=2
-```
\ No newline at end of file +```
diff --git a/doc/integration/ldap.md b/doc/integration/ldap.md index 7e2920b8865..845f588f913 100644 --- a/doc/integration/ldap.md +++ b/doc/integration/ldap.md @@ -13,6 +13,12 @@ An LDAP user who is allowed to change their email on the LDAP server can [take o We recommend against using GitLab LDAP integration if your LDAP users are allowed to change their 'mail', 'email' or 'userPrincipalName' attribute on the LDAP server. +If a user is deleted from the LDAP server, they will be blocked in GitLab as well. +Users will be immediately blocked from logging in. However, there is an LDAP check +cache time of one hour. The means users that are already logged in or are using Git +over SSH will still be able to access GitLab for up to one hour. Manually block +the user in the GitLab Admin area to immediately block all access. + ## Configuring GitLab for LDAP integration To enable GitLab LDAP integration you need to add your LDAP server settings in `/etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb` or `/home/git/gitlab/config/gitlab.yml`. @@ -192,4 +198,4 @@ Not supported by GitLab's configuration options. When setting `method: ssl`, the underlying authentication method used by `omniauth-ldap` is `simple_tls`. This method establishes TLS encryption with the LDAP server before any LDAP-protocol data is exchanged but no validation of -the LDAP server's SSL certificate is performed.
\ No newline at end of file +the LDAP server's SSL certificate is performed. diff --git a/doc/operations/moving_repositories.md b/doc/operations/moving_repositories.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..39086b7a251 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/operations/moving_repositories.md @@ -0,0 +1,180 @@ +# Moving repositories managed by GitLab + +Sometimes you need to move all repositories managed by GitLab to +another filesystem or another server. In this document we will look +at some of the ways you can copy all your repositories from +`/var/opt/gitlab/git-data/repositories` to `/mnt/gitlab/repositories`. + +We will look at three scenarios: the target directory is empty, the +target directory contains an outdated copy of the repositories, and +how to deal with thousands of repositories. + +**Each of the approaches we list can/will overwrite data in the +target directory `/mnt/gitlab/repositories`. Do not mix up the +source and the target.** + +## Target directory is empty: use a tar pipe + +If the target directory `/mnt/gitlab/repositories` is empty the +simplest thing to do is to use a tar pipe. This method has low +overhead and tar is almost always already installed on your system. +However, it is not possible to resume an interrupted tar pipe: if +that happens then all data must be copied again. + +``` +# As the git user +tar -C /var/opt/gitlab/git-data/repositories -cf - -- . |\ + tar -C /mnt/gitlab/repositories -xf - +``` + +If you want to see progress, replace `-xf` with `-xvf`. + +### Tar pipe to another server + +You can also use a tar pipe to copy data to another server. If your +'git' user has SSH access to the newserver as 'git@newserver', you +can pipe the data through SSH. + +``` +# As the git user +tar -C /var/opt/gitlab/git-data/repositories -cf - -- . |\ + ssh git@newserver tar -C /mnt/gitlab/repositories -xf - +``` + +If you want to compress the data before it goes over the network +(which will cost you CPU cycles) you can replace `ssh` with `ssh -C`. + +## The target directory contains an outdated copy of the repositories: use rsync + +If the target directory already contains a partial / outdated copy +of the repositories it may be wasteful to copy all the data again +with tar. In this scenario it is better to use rsync. This utility +is either already installed on your system or easily installable +via apt, yum etc. + +``` +# As the 'git' user +rsync -a --delete /var/opt/gitlab/git-data/repositories/. \ + /mnt/gitlab/repositories +``` + +The `/.` in the command above is very important, without it you can +easily get the wrong directory structure in the target directory. +If you want to see progress, replace `-a` with `-av`. + +### Single rsync to another server + +If the 'git' user on your source system has SSH access to the target +server you can send the repositories over the network with rsync. + +``` +# As the 'git' user +rsync -a --delete /var/opt/gitlab/git-data/repositories/. \ + git@newserver:/mnt/gitlab/repositories +``` + +## Thousands of Git repositories: use one rsync per repository + +Every time you start an rsync job it has to inspect all files in +the source directory, all files in the target directory, and then +decide what files to copy or not. If the source or target directory +has many contents this startup phase of rsync can become a burden +for your GitLab server. In cases like this you can make rsync's +life easier by dividing its work in smaller pieces, and sync one +repository at a time. + +In addition to rsync we will use [GNU +Parallel](http://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/). This utility is +not included in GitLab so you need to install it yourself with apt +or yum. Also note that the GitLab scripts we used below were added +in GitLab 8.1. + +** This process does not clean up repositories at the target location that no +longer exist at the source. ** If you start using your GitLab instance with +`/mnt/gitlab/repositories`, you need to run `gitlab-rake gitlab:cleanup:repos` +after switching to the new repository storage directory. + +### Parallel rsync for all repositories known to GitLab + +This will sync repositories with 10 rsync processes at a time. We keep +track of progress so that the transfer can be restarted if necessary. + +First we create a new directory, owned by 'git', to hold transfer +logs. We assume the directory is empty before we start the transfer +procedure, and that we are the only ones writing files in it. + +``` +# Omnibus +sudo mkdir /var/opt/gitlab/transfer-logs +sudo chown git:git /var/opt/gitlab/transfer-logs + +# Source +sudo -u git -H mkdir /home/git/transfer-logs +``` + +We seed the process with a list of the directories we want to copy. + +``` +# Omnibus +sudo -u git sh -c 'gitlab-rake gitlab:list_repos > /var/opt/gitlab/transfer-logs/all-repos-$(date +%s).txt' + +# Source +cd /home/git/gitlab +sudo -u git -H sh -c 'bundle exec rake gitlab:list_repos > /home/git/transfer-logs/all-repos-$(date +%s).txt' +``` + +Now we can start the transfer. The command below is idempotent, and +the number of jobs done by GNU Parallel should converge to zero. If it +does not some repositories listed in all-repos-1234.txt may have been +deleted/renamed before they could be copied. + +``` +# Omnibus +sudo -u git sh -c ' +cat /var/opt/gitlab/transfer-logs/* | sort | uniq -u |\ + /usr/bin/env JOBS=10 \ + /opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gitlab-rails/bin/parallel-rsync-repos \ + /var/opt/gitlab/transfer-logs/succes-$(date +%s).log \ + /var/opt/gitlab/git-data/repositories \ + /mnt/gitlab/repositories +' + +# Source +cd /home/git/gitlab +sudo -u git -H sh -c ' +cat /home/git/transfer-logs/* | sort | uniq -u |\ + /usr/bin/env JOBS=10 \ + bin/parallel-rsync-repos \ + /home/git/transfer-logs/succes-$(date +%s).log \ + /home/git/repositories \ + /mnt/gitlab/repositories +` +``` + +### Parallel rsync only for repositories with recent activity + +Suppose you have already done one sync that started after 2015-10-1 12:00 UTC. +Then you might only want to sync repositories that were changed via GitLab +_after_ that time. You can use the 'SINCE' variable to tell 'rake +gitlab:list_repos' to only print repositories with recent activity. + +``` +# Omnibus +sudo gitlab-rake gitlab:list_repos SINCE='2015-10-1 12:00 UTC' |\ + sudo -u git \ + /usr/bin/env JOBS=10 \ + /opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gitlab-rails/bin/parallel-rsync-repos \ + succes-$(date +%s).log \ + /var/opt/gitlab/git-data/repositories \ + /mnt/gitlab/repositories + +# Source +cd /home/git/gitlab +sudo -u git -H bundle exec rake gitlab:list_repos SINCE='2015-10-1 12:00 UTC' |\ + sudo -u git -H \ + /usr/bin/env JOBS=10 \ + bin/parallel-rsync-repos \ + succes-$(date +%s).log \ + /home/git/repositories \ + /mnt/gitlab/repositories +``` diff --git a/doc/raketasks/list_repos.md b/doc/raketasks/list_repos.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..476428eb4f5 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/raketasks/list_repos.md @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +# Listing repository directories + +You can print a list of all Git repositories on disk managed by +GitLab with the following command: + +``` +# Omnibus +sudo gitlab-rake gitlab:list_repos + +# Source +cd /home/git/gitlab +sudo -u git -H bundle exec rake gitlab:list_repos RAILS_ENV=production +``` + +If you only want to list projects with recent activity you can pass +a date with the 'SINCE' environment variable. The time you specify +is parsed by the Rails [TimeZone#parse +function](http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveSupport/TimeZone.html#method-i-parse). + +``` +# Omnibus +sudo gitlab-rake gitlab:list_repos SINCE='Sep 1 2015' + +# Source +cd /home/git/gitlab +sudo -u git -H bundle exec rake gitlab:list_repos RAILS_ENV=production SINCE='Sep 1 2015' +``` + +Note that the projects listed are NOT sorted by activity; they use +the default ordering of the GitLab Rails application. |