Rocks2Git

Automatic LuaRocks to Git repo import utility

• Author: Martin Šrank, hello@smasty.net
• License: MIT
• Part of the LuaDist project

Downloads all modules from LuaRocks and creates Git repositories with correct tags, branches and commit history for each module.

Requirements

System

• luarocks >= 2.2.0
• git >= 2.0.0

Lua

• penlight >= 1.3.2
• lualogging

Installation and configuration

You need to have a LuaRocks mirror repository cloned and linked from config. Run this in your mirror_dir directory:

$ git clone https://github.com/rocks-moonscript-org/moonrocks-mirror.git ./

All paths specified in the configuration file (rocks2git/config.lua) need to be created before the utility is run.

Usage

This utility can be used in either batch or single mode.

Batch mode

In this mode, the utility processes all the modules from the LuaRocks mirror repository. Output is logged into a log file, which can be specified in config. You can also specify the level of logging.

$ lua ./rocks2git.lua

Single mode

In this mode, only the module given on command line is processed. Output is logged to the console output on all levels.

$ lua ./rocks2git.lua module_name

Pushing to GitHub

To push the generated Git repositories to Github, use the GitHub Pusher LuaDist utility.