Sourcebot can sync code from generic git repositories stored in a local directory. This can be helpful in scenarios where you already have a large number of repos already checked out. Local repositories are treated as read-only, meaning Sourcebot will not git fetch new revisions. If you’re not familiar with Sourcebot connections, please read that overview first.

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Getting Started

Only folders containing git repositories at their root and have a remote.origin.url set in their git config are supported at this time. All other folders will be skipped.
Let’s assume we have a repos directory located at $(PWD) with a collection of git repositories: 
repos/
├─ repo_1/
├─ repo_2/
├─ repo_3/
├─ ...
To get Sourcebot to index these repositories:
1

Mount a volume

We need to mount a docker volume to the repos directory so Sourcebot can read it’s contents. Sourcebot will not write to local repositories, so we can mount a separate read-only volume:
docker run \
    -v $(pwd)/repos:/repos:ro \
    /* additional args */ \
    ghcr.io/sourcebot-dev/sourcebot:latest
2

Create a connection

We can now create a new git connection, specifying local paths with the file:// prefix. Glob patterns are supported. For example:
{
    "type": "git",
    "url": "file:///repos/*"
}
Sourcebot will expand this glob pattern into paths /repos/repo_1, /repos/repo_2, etc. and index all valid git repositories.

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Examples

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Schema reference