Re: mirroring git.apache.org

[Shawn Pearce <so...@google.com>]

On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Jukka Zitting <ju...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 9:56 PM, Shawn Pearce <so...@google.com> wrote:
>> I am trying to locate an HTTP URL we can periodically fetch to get the
>> list of available repositories. For example kernel.org gives us [4]
>> and eclipse.org gives us [5]. The only source I can locate for
>> git.apache.org is an XHTML index document that is much more difficult
>> to parse than the plain text formats we get from other sites. Is there
>> a plain text project listing we can parse? If not can infra make one
>> available?
>
> The index file on git.apache.org is generated by [1]. Please provide a
> patch to produce an additional text file in a format you like.
>
> FWIW, GitHub currently parses the XHTML index to mirror our
> repositories at https://github.com/apache.

Eh, we now extract git://git.apache.org/ URLs from the XHTML. :-)

> [1] https://svn.apache.org/repos/infra/infrastructure/trunk/projects/git/bin/update-index.sh

Thanks, I didn't know this is where it lives. Would you like a patch
to add links to our mirror as well?