@PLUGIN@ start - Manually trigger replication, to recover a node
ssh -p @SSH_PORT@ @SSH_HOST@ @PLUGIN@ start [--now] [--wait] {--url <PATTERN> | [--url <PATTERN>] --all | [--url <PATTERN>] <PROJECT PATTERN> ...}
Schedules replication of the specified projects to all configured replication destinations, or only those whose URLs match the pattern given on the command line.
Normally Gerrit automatically schedules replication whenever it makes a change to a managed Git repository. However, there are other reasons why an administrator may wish to trigger replication:
Destination disappears, then later comes back online.
If a destination went offline for a period of time, when it comes back, it may be missing commits that it should have. Triggering a replication run for all projects against that URL will update it.
After repacking locally, and using rsync to distribute the new pack files to the destinations.
If the local server is repacked, and then the resulting pack files are sent to remote peers using rsync -a --delete-after, there is a chance that the rsync missed a change that was added during the rsync data transfer, and the rsync will remove that changes's data from the remote, even though the automatic replication pushed it there in parallel to the rsync.
It's a good idea to run replicate with --all to ensure all projects are consistent after the rsync is complete.
After deleting a ref by hand.
If a ref must be removed (e.g. to purge a change or patch set that shouldn‘t have been created, and that must be eradicated) that delete must be done by direct git access on the local, managed repository. Gerrit won’t know about the delete, and is unable to replicate it automatically. Triggering replication on just the affected project can update the mirrors.
If you get message “Nothing to replicate” while running this command, it may be caused by several reasons, such as you give a wrong url pattern in command options, or the authGroup in the replication.config has no read access for the replicated projects.
If one or several project patterns are supplied, only those projects conforming to both this/these pattern(s) and those defined in replication.config for the target host(s) are queued for replication.
The patterns follow the same format as those in replication.config, where wildcard or regular expression patterns can be given. Regular expression patterns must match a complete project name to be considered a match.
A regular expression pattern starts with ^ and a wildcard pattern ends with a *. If the pattern starts with ^ and ends with *, it is treated as a regular expression.
Caller must be a member of the privileged ‘Administrators’ group, or have been granted the ‘Start Replication’ plugin-owned capability.
This command is intended to be used in scripts.
--now : Start replicating right away without waiting the per remote replication delay.
--wait : Wait for replication to finish before exiting.
--all : Schedule replication for all projects.
--url <PATTERN> : Replicate only to replication destinations whose configuration URL contains the substring PATTERN, or whose expanded project URL contains PATTERN. This can be useful to replicate only to a previously down node, which has been brought back online.
Replicate every project, to every configured remote:
$ ssh -p @SSH_PORT@ @SSH_HOST@ @PLUGIN@ start --all
Replicate only to srv2 now that it is back online:
$ ssh -p @SSH_PORT@ @SSH_HOST@ @PLUGIN@ start --url srv2 --all
Replicate only the tools/gerrit project, after deleting a ref locally by hand:
$ git --git-dir=/home/git/tools/gerrit.git update-ref -d refs/changes/00/100/1 $ ssh -p @SSH_PORT@ @SSH_HOST@ @PLUGIN@ start tools/gerrit
Replicate only projects located in the documentation subdirectory:
$ ssh -p @SSH_PORT@ @SSH_HOST@ @PLUGIN@ start documentation/*
Replicate projects whose path includes a folder named vendor to host replica1:
$ ssh -p @SSH_PORT@ @SSH_HOST@ @PLUGIN@ start --url replica1 ^(|.*/)vendor(|/.*)
Replicate to only one specific destination URL:
$ ssh -p @SSH_PORT@ @SSH_HOST@ @PLUGIN@ start --url https://example.com/tools/gerrit.git