Re:Gitlab.com was experiencing elevated error rates for Git,...
by tomxor on Monday March 15, 2021 @10:19AM
(#26466370)
Thanks this is useful to know
> Downtimes are so infrequent and relatively short that this isn't worth the effort for me.
That's essentially the same conclusion I keep coming too, occasionally it has hit me when I go to push something but rarely has it blocked me or anyone else from continuing to work.
> You can instead set up a read-only mirror so people can at least still pull and browse the code
Yeah, this I need to do eventually just for peace of mind as a more automated backup solution. At least I don't have to care about failover.
Re:Gitlab.com was experiencing elevated error rates for Git,...
by mroche on Monday March 15, 2021 @12:44PM
(#26468281)
Maybe some kind of pre/post-push hook to automatically push to a secondary repo? Not entirely sure if this is possible, I’ve never written a Git hook before.
> Downtimes are so infrequent and relatively short that this isn't worth the effort for me.
That's essentially the same conclusion I keep coming too, occasionally it has hit me when I go to push something but rarely has it blocked me or anyone else from continuing to work.
> You can instead set up a read-only mirror so people can at least still pull and browse the code
Yeah, this I need to do eventually just for peace of mind as a more automated backup solution. At least I don't have to care about failover.