GitLabSync

A tool to help synchronize specific files and folders across repositories in GitLab.

This tool is based on GitHubSync by Simon Cropp.

dotnet tool

This tool allows reading the configuration from a file. This allows customization of the templates and repositories without needing to recompile any code.

Installation

Ensure dotnet CLI is installed.

Install GitLabSync.Tool globally.

dotnet tool install -g GitLabSync.Tool

Usage

To run the tool with your gitlab credentials, you need to set the environment variable GitLab_OAuthToken with a personal access token as the value.

You can also set the environment variable GitLab_HostUrl to the host of your GitLab instance. This is optional and defaults to https://gitlab.com.

Run against the current directory will use gitlabsync.yaml in the current directory:

gitlabsync

Run against a specific file:

gitlabsync /path/to/gitlabsync.yaml

Configuration definition

The configuration format is yaml. There should be 1 to n number of templates and 1 to n number of (target) repositories.

templates:
  - name: [template name]
    url: [repository url of the template]
    branch: [branch to use, defaults to `main`]
    
repositories:
  - name: [repository name]
    url: [repository url of the target repository]
    branch: [target branch, defaults to `main`]
    templates:
      - [list of template names to use in the order to apply]