Remove obsolete mirror script and add gitinfo script for repository descriptions

4 files changed, 19 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/etc/cron.d/10m b/etc/cron.d/10m
deleted file mode 100644
index 56b6070..0000000
--- a/etc/cron.d/10m
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-* * * * * /bin/bash /scripts/mirrors.bash >> /var/log/mirrors.log 2>&1
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diff --git a/etc/cron.d/1m b/etc/cron.d/1m
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1dd9b9d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/etc/cron.d/1m
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+* * * * * /bin/bash /scripts/gitinfo.bash >> /var/log/gitinfo.log 2>&1
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diff --git a/scripts/gitinfo.bash b/scripts/gitinfo.bash
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e4b089f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/gitinfo.bash
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+#/bin/bash
+
+for repository in /repositories/*; do
+  cd /repositories/$(basename "$repository")
+  gitinfo=$(git cat-file -p @:.gitinfo)
+
+  # does gitinfo exist? expect "fatal" if not
+  if [[ $gitinfo == fatal* ]]; then
+    echo "No .gitinfo found for $(basename "$repository")"
+    continue
+  fi
+
+  # extract description from gitinfo (json format)
+  description=$(echo "$gitinfo" | grep -oP '"description":\s*"\K[^"]+')
+
+  # write description to repository description file
+  echo "$description" > /repositories/$(basename "$repository")/description
+done
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diff --git a/scripts/mirrors.bash b/scripts/mirrors.bash
deleted file mode 100644
index 02c333f..0000000
--- a/scripts/mirrors.bash
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-#/bin/bash
-
-# This script is responsible for pushing to mirrors of the git repositories. It runs through all the repositories in the /repositories directory and performs a git push to the corresponding mirror URL(s) defined in the .gitinfo file if they exist.
-
-echo "to be implemented"
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