Git/GitLab

GitLab - download all repositories

Note: Pending update 2020, to distinguish all repos vs private to view as it's a difference when hosting on GitLab.com and your own server where 'public' repos are still private to you. This is not a case for GitLab.com You can get token when log in to your account > settings and generate access token. Assign all permissions. Also so you know v3 APIs may be deployed on older version Gitlab.

#!/bin/bash 

# Get pages count of all repos you can access
# $ curl --head "http://<host.com>/api/v4/projects?private_token=<token>=100&page=1" | grep Total
#   X-Total: 509
#   X-Total-Pages: 6

#Create JSON file with repo name and path
#for PAGE in {1..6}; do curl "<host.com>/api/v4/projects?private_token=CMQdz-Qik8XanGYJTbnH&per_page=100&page=$PAGE" | jq --raw-output --compact-output ".[] | { "path": .path, "git": .ssh_url_to_repo }" >> repos.json; done

[ -d repos ] || mkdir repos
cd repos
while read repo; do
    THEPATH=$(echo "$repo" | jq -r ".path")
    echo "path: $THEPATH"
    GIT=$(echo "$repo" | jq -r ".git")
    echo "git: $GIT"

    if [ ! -d "$THEPATH" ]; then
        echo "Cloning $THEPATH ( $GIT )"
        git clone "$GIT"
    else
        echo "Pulling $THEPATH"
        (cd "$THEPATH" && git pull)
    fi
done < "../$FILENAME"
cd ..

Example repos.json

{"path":"project-x","git":"git@<host.com>:Spikes/project-x.git"}
{"path":"project-y","git":"git@<host.com>:Spikes/AWS/project-y.git"}

Reset a user password

This could be also root user.

ubuntu@gitlab:~$  sudo gitlab-rails console
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 GitLab:       11.4.0 (6ebbd70)
 GitLab Shell: 8.3.3
 postgresql:   9.6.8
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Loading production environment (Rails 4.2.10)
irb(main):001:0> user = User.find_by(username: "bob")
                 user = User.find_by(id: 1)    //by id
=> #<User id:5 @bob>
irb(main):002:0> user.password = 'test1234'    //at least 8 characters long
=> "test1"
irb(main):003:0> user.password_confirmation = 'test1234'
=> "test1"
irb(main):007:0> user.unlock_access!
=> true
irb(main):008:0> user.save!
=> false

Deployment token

In course to grant access to a single repository for reading, writting or both we can use feature called Deploy Tokens. Go to repository > repository settings > Deploy Tokens to create one.

Access repository

# Syntax
# git clone http://<username>:<deploy_token>@gitlab.example.com/tanuki/awesome_project.git

# Example
git clone https://darkmatter:PLjeFh56F15yJeq8xrZv@gitlab.com/hackerrank1/apache-nginx-ssl.git
Cloning into 'apache-nginx-ssl'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 110, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (110/110), done.
...

References

• Deploy Tokens Introduced in GitLab 10.7.

GitLab CI

• GitLab CI/CD Pipeline Configuration Reference

References

• gist