How to find which repositories are actively being used
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Summary
It's important for some teams to be able to report on which repositories in their system are actively being used for the purposes of archiving or removing old repositories that are no longer in use.
Environment
Bitbucket Server and Bitbucket Data Center.
Solution
While there's no kind of innate logging mechanism that accomplishes this request, it's possible to use the access logs in order to determine the number of requests made to a given repository.
ℹ️ For example, the following bash script takes a given access log list (
$FILESTOSCAN) and then outputs anygit-upload-packoperations found in the logs, and then groups them by the repository that the request was made against and outputs the 20 most-accessed repositories for the logs provided for HTTP and SSH independently.
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FILESTOSCAN="atlassian-bitbucket-access*.log"
echo "Number of Clones per Repository"
echo "HTTP(s) clones:"
grep -h "git-upload-pack" $FILESTOSCAN | grep ", clone" | grep -v "SSH" | awk -F '|' '{ print $6 }' | awk -F ' ' '{ print $2 }' | awk -F '/' '{ print $3"/"$4 }' | sed "s/'//" | sort | uniq -c | sort -n -r | awk '{printf "%'\''d - %s\n", $1, $2 }' > clone_count.rpt
head -20 clone_count.rpt
echo "SSH Clones:"
grep -h "git-upload-pack" $FILESTOSCAN | grep ", clone" | grep "SSH" | awk -F '|' '{ print $6 }' | awk -F ' ' '{ print $4 }' | awk -F '/' '{ print $2"/"$3 }' | sed "s/'//" | sort | uniq -c | sort -n -r | awk '{printf "%'\''d - %s\n", $1, $2 }' > clone_count.rpt
head -20 clone_count.rptThe above script is provided on a best-effort basis, and Atlassian Support is unable to directly support this script or any customizations made to it to achieve your team's business needs.
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