Documentation for FishEye 3.0.x. Documentation for other versions is available too.

When adding or managing a Git repository, you can do the following:

FishEye interacts with Git repositories by executing the Git command in a separate process. Hence, the server running FishEye needs to have Git installed. FishEye indexes Git repositories by making a private, bare clone of your repository within FishEye's cache area. It uses this private clone for most Git operations.

Requirements

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Related pages:

Git repository setup

To add an external Git repository to FishEye:

  1. Click the user menu in the FishEye header, and choose Administration. You will need to be logged in as an administrator to see this link.
  2. Click Repositories (under 'Repository Settings').
  3. Click Add Existing...
  4. Complete the wizard:

Step 1

Field

Description

Repository Type

Select Git.

Name

Enter a name for this repository. The name may contain alphanumeric, underscore, '-' or '.' characters. This will be repository name in FishEye.

Description

Enter a short description of this repository.

Step 2

Field

Description

Repository Location

Enter the URL describing the Git repository location. FishEye will clone this repository for indexing purposes. You can use any URL recognised by Git itself. Fisheye recognizes the following URL's:

git://server_name[:port]/path_to_repository
http://server_name[:port]/path_to_repository
https://server_name[:port]/path_to_repository
ssh://server_name[:port]/path_to_repository
file://[hostname]/path_to_repository

Do not use spaces in your URL.

Path

(optional) Enter the path within the Git repository that you want FishEye to index. This lets you limit FishEye to indexing a subset of the complete Git repository.

Block Size

(optional) Enter how many commits you want FishEye to process in one batch. Larger values require more memory and increase the amount of work FishEye commits to the database in a single operation. Requires a repository restart.

Command Timeout

(optional) Enter the time that a single Git command is allowed to take to execute. Any command that exceeds this time is terminated and the operation will fail.

Rename Detection

(optional) Select which Git rename detection strategy FishEye will use to detect copy and move operations within the repository. Please refer to the Git documentation for more information.

Step 3

Field

Description

Store Diff Info

Tick this checkbox, if you want FishEye to cache information about file diffs in its database. This is required for some FishEye features. See Configuring Repository Details for more information on this setting.

Enable Repository After Adding

Tick this checkbox, to enable the repository after adding (i.e. when you click the 'Add' button).

Screenshots: Adding a Git repository

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Limitations

When FishEye indexes a Git repository, it indexes by the available branches. As it processes the commits on a branch, FishEye will assign the commit to the branch it first sees the commit on. Commits are only indexed once so if a commit belongs to multiple branches, the commit will not be indexed against subsequent branches.

Furthermore, indexing of a Git repository can be slow when new branches are pushed. Performance in such cases can be improved by setting a command line option for FishEye. See this KB page for more information.
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  1. Anonymous

    Does fisheye also detect 

    git@server_name:path_to_repository.git

    like it is being displayed for repositories at github.com?

 

 

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