On Fri, May 05, 2023 at 08:17:01AM -0400, Jason Stephenson via Evergreen-dev wrote: > > Is there some way we can archive the old repositories instead of > > simply deleting them, so that they still exist somewhere but don't > > add clutter? As Jane says, it would be good to retain a record of > > some of these projects. > With our current set up, the best we can do is set repositories to a > read-only configuration. They will still take up space on the server > and will have to be moved if we decide to keep them later. > > We could move some of them to GitHub and set them as archived there. > This gets them off of our storage, and we would not have to deal with > them later. I hesitate to do this because our future git hosting is > still undecided. (Former BC Libraries person here, but I also run Gentoo Linux's infrastructure team and we have a large Gitolite install, and had run into capacity crunches before)
I don't trust that GitHub will always exist, so firstly export the repos as a git-bundle (be sure to include all branches, tags), and then move those single files into HTTP hosting somewhere - it's not searchable/browsable, but they are preserved and easy enough to access (wget https://.../foo.bundle && git clone foo.bundle) Then, make a seperate org in GitHub and put the archive repos there - seperate org because it's easier to lock it down, and declare "this exists for archival purposes only". -- Robin Hugh Johnson GnuPG FP : 11ACBA4F 4778E3F6 E4EDF38E B27B944E 34884E85 _______________________________________________ Evergreen-dev mailing list [email protected] http://list.evergreen-ils.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/evergreen-dev
