How to know all projects from remote repository?

Question

Has there any way to know list of git in remote repository ? If I can know , I would like to download all projects from remote repostiory. Please assume remote repository has

1. projectA.git
2. projectB.git
3. projectC.git

Now I am working on projectA.git and I am not knowing about there also have projectB.git and projectC.git.

I can clone or fetch data from ssh://remoteMachine@xxx.x.xxx.xxx:xxx/data/repos/projects/projectA.git

So, I want see another urls such as .. ssh://remoteMachine@xxx.x.xxx.xxx:xxx/data/repos/projects/projectB.git ssh://remoteMachine@xxx.x.xxx.xxx:xxx/data/repos/projects/projectC.git

Can it be possible ?

Answer 1

Not with git alone, you need a frontend dedicated application to list the repos.

• A git distribution comes with gitweb, which can list those repos. See "Listing all repositories served by git-daemon"
• an authorisation layer like gitolite will also list the repos you have access to (with gitolite info).

Note: using ssh ls supposes having access to an interactive ssh, which is generally not recommended (because you could execute other commands as well, like... rm)