Gitlab Project Doctor

A CLI tool to cleanup a Gitlab repository

Table of Contents

1. About The Project
2. Getting Started
3. Roadmap
4. Contributing
5. License
6. Contact
7. Acknowledgments

About The Project

Gitlab Project doctor is a CLI tool to clean up Gitlab repositories, especially (for now) :

• Old pipelines (with jobs and jobs artifacts)
• Obsolete packages from package registry

It has first class support on Windows, macOS and Linux, with binary downloads available for every release .

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Getting Started

Installation

1. Download the latest release for your OS
2. Unzip and make gitlab-project-doctor executable

   chmod +x gitlab-project-doctor

3. The environment variable GL_TOKEN needs to be set with a private token with sufficient privileges (owner of a project). For instance, on Linux :

   read -s GL_TOKEN # To secretly set the variable

Usage

1. You can analyze a project from a local Git path whose first remote is a gitlab repository

   cd my_favorite_gitlab_repo
   gitlab-project-doctor .

2. Or you can analyze a project from a remote Gitlab repository

   gitlab-project-doctor --url https://<your-gitlab-repo.com>/your-project-path

On Gitlab, if you allow duplicate packages (same name, same version), when you upload a package, the former one is not deleted. gitlab-project-doctor detects :

• Generic duplicate packages: same name, same version
• Maven SNAPSHOT duplicate packages: same artifactId, same SNAPSHOT version.

Usage on CI/CD

You can use gitlab-project-doctor in batch mode, for example in a CI/CD job.

In a Gitlab environment, here is an example of job declaration :

# A job in the .gitlab-ci.yml file of the project you want to clean
clean_project:
  image: $CI_REGISTRY/pub/numeco/gitlab-project-doctor:latest
  variables:
    # You need to declare a project-based private token with **owner** privilege
    GL_TOKEN: $GL_WRITE_TOKEN
  stage: build
  # The option -b activates the batch mode
  # The option -d specifies the number of days
  script:
    - gitlab-project-doctor --url $CI_PROJECT_URL -b -d 30

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Roadmap

• Initial release with generic and maven packages detection
• Internationalization (French)
• Batch-mode and container image (Alpine-based)
• Container registry
• Fat git repositories

See the open issues for a full list of proposed features (and known issues).

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Contributing

Contributions are what make the open source community such an amazing place to learn, inspire, and create. Any contributions you make are greatly appreciated.

If you have a suggestion that would make this better, please fork the repo and create a pull request. You can also simply open an issue with the tag " enhancement". Don't forget to give the project a star! Thanks again!

1. Fork the Project
2. Create your Feature Branch (git checkout -b feature/AmazingFeature)
3. Commit your Changes (git commit -m 'Add some AmazingFeature')
4. Push to the Branch (git push origin feature/AmazingFeature)
5. Open a Pull Request

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License

Distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for more information.

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Contact

Geoffrey Arthaud - [email protected]

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Acknowledgments

• ripgrep project for Github actions

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