git-archive-daemon

git-archive-daemon

git-archive-daemon is a scalable, high-performance HTTP API for serving archives of git repositories.

It utilizes git archive tool for actual archive generation.

Features

• Laziness - Archives are generated on demand, when they're requested.
• Caching - Requests for the same combination of tree, prefix and format are served from a disk cache.
• Work pooling - Archiving is done by workers from a configurable, fixed size pool. This allows for putting predictable, limited load on the machine.
• Request grouping - When the archive is not cached then all requests for it are grouped together, waiting for the single archiving job to complete. This avoids duplicate work and allows git-archive-daemon to handle high volume of requests.

Installation

Currently you need Go development environment to build git-archive-daemon.

The following command will fetch the package and build the binary at $GOPATH/bin/git-archive-daemon:

go get gitorious.org/gitorious/git-archive-daemon

Usage

Starting

Usage:

git-archive-daemon [options]

Options:

• -r <repos-dir> - Directory containing git repositories, defaults to "."
• -c <cache-dir> - Cache dir for storing archives, defaults to "."
• -t <tmp-dir> - Tmp dir for archive generation, defaults to system tmp dir
• -l <[addr]:port> - Address/port to listen on, defaults to 127.0.0.1:5000
• -w <workers> - Number of workers, defaults to 10

Example:

git-archive-daemon -r /var/git/repositories -c /var/cache/archives -l :80

API

GET /<repo-path>[?params]

Params:

• ref - branch/tag name or commit sha
• format - tar.gz or zip
• prefix - (optional) prepended to each filename in the archive (passed to git archive via --prefix option)
• filename - (optional) filename for the response, returned in Content-Disposition: attachment HTTP header.

Example:

GET /my-project/repo?ref=master&format=tar.gz&prefix=my-project/

This will generate and send tar.gz archive of master branch of repository at <repos-dir>/my-project/repo.

License

git-archive-daemon is free software licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License. git-archive-daemon is developed as part of the Gitorious project.