After some discussion, I was able to convince my client to convert from gitorious to gitolite. One nice feature that people like about gitorious is that the web interface provides an easy way to look up urls for cloning repositories.
In my mind, that's a pretty legitimate need. To that end, I threw together this bash script, which acts as a cgi and dropped it in the cgi-bin directory of the server that's running gitolite. Hope you find this helpful.
#!/bin/bash
REPOSITORY_DIR="/home/git/repositories/"
URL_PREFIX="git clone git@internal-build-server:"
cat <<DONE
Content-type: text/html
<html>
<head>
<title>Repository URLs</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/index.css" />
</head>
<body>
<div id="page_container">
<h1>
Repository URLs
</h1>
<p>
Repository URLs on this server follow a specific pattern. The pattern is
as follows:
</p>
<center>
git@internal-build-server:<i><font color="darkblue">{category}</font></i>/<i><font color="darkblue">{project}</font></i>
</center>
<p>
These URLs are both pull and push URLs. You do not need separate URLs
for pulling and pushing. Access control will be handled by a
server git update hook that is provided by gitolite.
</p>
<p>
In an effort to make life a little easier in locating your URLs, this script
enumerates URLs for the repositories located on this machine below.
</p>
DONE
CATEGORIES=$(find $REPOSITORY_DIR -type d -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -not \
-iname '*.git' | sed -e "s|$REPOSITORY_DIR||g")
for CATEGORY in $CATEGORIES; do
echo "<h2>Category: $CATEGORY</h2>"
CAT_REPOSITORIES=$(find $REPOSITORY_DIR$CATEGORY -type d -iname \
'*.git' | sed -e "s|$REPOSITORY_DIR||g" -e 's/.git$//g')
for REPOSITORY in $CAT_REPOSITORIES; do
echo "$URL_PREFIX$REPOSITORY<br />"
done
done
ROOT_REPOSITORIES=$(find $REPOSITORY_DIR -type d -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 \
-iname '*.git' | sed -e "s|$REPOSITORY_DIR||g" -e 's/.git$//g')
echo "<h2>Uncategorized Repositories</h2>"
for REPOSITORY in $ROOT_REPOSITORIES; do
echo "$URL_PREFIX$REPOSITORY<br />"
done
cat <<DONE
<br />
</div>
</body>
</html>
DONE
