Let me explore the local clone option some more
$ git clone /local/path/to/bare/repo

Thanks for the tip
On Monday, 10 May 2021 at 19:01:34 UTC-7 HUSSEIN KADIRI wrote:

> You're right the agent won't need read write. The volume is what needs to 
> be setup as read write. See doc 
> <https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/storage/persistent-volumes/#access-modes>
>  
> Write - would be the "cron" updating the repo
> Read - would be the agents "cloning"
> Reading and Writing can't happen simultaneously. 
>
> On Monday, 10 May 2021 at 18:55:21 UTC-7 Marques Lee wrote:
>
>> Typo — “why would the agents need read/write” was what I meant
>>
>> On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 6:53 PM Marques Lee <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Pardon my lack of familiarity with GKE, my question may be extremely 
>>> naive - if there’s only process that needs to write to the mount (the cron 
>>> that performs the fetch to keep the code updated), then by would the agents 
>>> need read/write on the volume? Isn’t read-only enough to clone for a 
>>> pipeline run?
>>>
>>> On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 6:48 PM HUSSEIN KADIRI <[email protected]> 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hmm, we setup GoCD on kubernetes so the server is a kubernetes 
>>>> deployment. 
>>>>
>>>> We are on GKE . Yes we can mount a volume but GKE PVC are only 
>>>> ReadWriteOnce (One pod mounted to read and write) or ReadOnlyMany 
>>>> (Multiple 
>>>> pods mounted and reading only from the volume).
>>>>
>>>> Your recommendation requires a ReadWriteMany setup which is not 
>>>> possible in GKE.
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, May 10, 2021, 6:43 PM Marques Lee <[email protected]> 
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hmm, unfortunately I don’t believe the git material in GoCD has native 
>>>>> support for reference repos.
>>>>>
>>>>> Could the server not run a cron to do git fetch —all on the bare repo 
>>>>> to keep it updated?
>>>>>
>>>>> Then all agents would pick up new changes so long as the volume 
>>>>> holding the bare repo is mounted to agents.
>>>>>
>>>>> Otherwise, yeah, GoCD may not be a good fit for you until we build in 
>>>>> support for —reference-repo if that’s a deal breaker.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 6:37 PM HUSSEIN KADIRI <[email protected]> 
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I have elastic agents so the cron route would not be feasible. 
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I mount a reference repo as a K8s PVC.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I want to do a git clone <url> --reference-repo <path to my mounted 
>>>>>> reference repo>. 
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Can the git material support or be modified to accept reference repo 
>>>>>> paths? 
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This is kind of a deal breaker if it can't 
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, May 10, 2021, 6:31 PM Marques Lee <[email protected]> 
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hmm. Well I suppose you could git clone —bare —mirror to a known 
>>>>>>> location and then:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 1) create git materials with file system paths for the url instead 
>>>>>>> of http/ssh
>>>>>>> 2) run a cron to keep the ref repo updated
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Would that work?
>>>>>>> On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 6:25 PM HUSSEIN KADIRI <[email protected]> 
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> My repo is too big, it can't be cloned by itself. it needs a 
>>>>>>>> reference repo. 
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Is there a way to configure a reference repo ? 
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Mon, May 10, 2021, 6:23 PM Marques Lee <
>>>>>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Git materials support shallow clone. I think you need to expand 
>>>>>>>>> the advance tab to see the option. It’s of course in 
>>>>>>>>> cruise-config.xml as 
>>>>>>>>> well as the various pipelines-as-config syntaxes.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> The workspace isn’t recloned every time either. If it exists on 
>>>>>>>>> disk, it gets updated via fetch.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 4:29 PM HUSSEIN KADIRI <[email protected]> 
>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>>>> Sometimes a git repo is large and so it's not efficient/fast to 
>>>>>>>>>> do a git clone. One would have to use a reference repo. For all the 
>>>>>>>>>> parts 
>>>>>>>>>> that require git (config repository, git material, etc), is it 
>>>>>>>>>> possible to 
>>>>>>>>>> have more complex git workflows - utilizing a reference repo, 
>>>>>>>>>> shallow clone 
>>>>>>>>>> - since a simple git clone is not always possible? 
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