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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=RU link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> Rancid-discuss <rancid-discuss-bounces@shrubbery.net> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Ryan Melville<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, August 22, 2018 5:41 PM<br><b>To:</b> heasley <heas@shrubbery.net><br><b>Cc:</b> rancid-discuss@shrubbery.net<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [rancid] Help Using git with RANCID<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>>Thank you for the advice, which got me on the right track. I think those commands probably would have worked as-is, but my ideal state was having RANCID’s local git workspace wire directly back to my git server *<b>only</b>* and not also push to the local ($CVSROOT) git repo.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>>So my steps were the following, picking up after the “</span><span lang=EN-US>sudo -H -u rancid /mnt/rancid/rancid/bin/rancid-cvs<span style='color:#1F497D'>” command:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>>1) Create new empty ‘rancid-<group>’ repository on my (external) master git server (Atlassian Bitbucket, in my case).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>>2) Create ‘rancid’ user on my master git server, and give it read/write permission to the new repo.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>>3) Store ‘rancid’ user git credentials on my RANCID server, which requires a temporary clone that is then immediately deleted.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'>sudo -H -u rancid git config --global user.name “rancid”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'>sudo -H -u rancid git config --global user.email “rancid@<mydomain>”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'>sudo -H -u rancid git config --global credential.helper store<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'>sudo -H -u rancid git clone <a href="https://rancid@%3cmy-git-server%3e/scm/rancid-%3cgroup%3e.git">https://rancid@<my-git-server>/scm/rancid-<group>.git</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'>(enter ‘rancid’ user passwords when prompted)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'>sudo -H -u rancid rm -rf rancid-all<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>>4) Re-wire RANCID’s git workspace to the master git server, instead of its local git server/repo. Uses my particular RANCID installation path and group name (“all”).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'>>cd /mnt/rancid/rancid/var/all<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'>sudo -H -u rancid git remote set-url origin <a href="https://rancid@%3cmy-git-server%3e/scm/rancid-all.git">https://rancid@<my-git-server>/scm/rancid-all.git</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'>sudo -H -u rancid git push -u origin --all<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'>sudo -H -u rancid git push origin --tags<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>>At this point, I made a change to a network device, waited for my next cron execution of rancid-run, and then observed the changes in my master git repo, so I believe it was all working well.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>Was or is? Big difference!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Constantia",serif;color:#1F497D'>></span></b><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Constantia",serif;color:#565A5C'>Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Constantia",serif;color:#565A5C'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Constantia",serif;color:#1F497D'>></span></b><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Constantia",serif;color:#565A5C'>Ryan Melville</span></b><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div></body></html>