Serve bare git repo from a remote server?

[saoudrizwan]

Hello, firstly - thanks for the amazing repo.

I understand that in your implementation (and stackdot's), you use git-upload-pack and git-receive-pack processes to allow the client and server to talk to each other (figure out what packets the other needs, etc.) To my knowledge, this git command accepts a local directory, but what if I host all my bare git repositories on a separate server, like an AWS S3 bucket? Could I stream a remote bare repo to these git commands, that then stream the necessary packets to the client? I don't want to host all my bare git repos on my heroku instance, since the storage is ephemeral and limited. Any guidance would be appreciated!

[gilbert]

I would like to know the answer to this too. Bonus points for proxying to another git server like GitHub itself!

[akif-ih]

I am facing this problem too, i want to host all my repos to s3 instead of my own server and clone them using the same method.

[akif-ih]

@gabrielcsapo Please could u help or can guide us ?

[luzzif]

+1, this would be super nice (I could also contribute if needed)

[chmac]

This question is quite old, but having spent a little time in the node-git-server code, I think the answer to this is not easily.

This package calls git on the host's operating system like so:

node-git-server/lib/service.js

Lines 107 to 112 in 5279f64

	const cmd = os.platform() == 'win32' ?
	['git', opts.service, '--stateless-rpc', opts.cwd]
	:
	['git-' + opts.service, '--stateless-rpc', opts.cwd];
	const ps = spawn(cmd[0], cmd.slice(1));

Converting that to instead using streams and pulling from remote hosts would, in my opinion, be a lot of work. Also, if you check the philosophy section of this package, it aims to have zero dependencies. Adding streaming from remote hosts would definitely require dependencies.

[vadolasi]

I found a solution for this, maybe not the best of all but it works well:

There are some tools like s3fs and goofys that allow you to mount an s3 bucket on the filesystem.