git-utlis

This package provides a set of git meta-porcelain commands to manage a work tree with multiple git repositories.

Provided commands:

• git listall
  List repositories in tree.
• git cloneall FILE
  Clone all repositories in file
• git pullall
  Pull changes for all repositories in tree If .pullall-skip file exists in the repository root, git-pullall will skip pulling it

These enable setting up and maintaining multiple development machines with a number of git repositories.

Workflow

In a tree with multiple git repositories:

• to pull external changes to all repositories in a tree:

  $ git pullall -r
  

• to create the same environment on a different computer:

  $ git listall -r > repos.lst
  

  move the repos.lst to the target machine and:

  $ git cloneall repos.lst
  

  Note that git cloneall will only clone repos that are not already cloned, thus it is safe to call on an existing tree.
• to update the repository list with new repos:

  $ git listall -r repos.lst >> repos.lst
  

Tips

• It is convenient to manage repos.lst as a symlink to a unified directory and synchronize it between machines via something like Syncthing

License

BSD 3-Clause License

Copyright (c) 2023, Alex A. Naanou,
All rights reserved.