myrepos is an excellent tool for applying git operations to multiple repositories, and I use it extensively.

Given a configuration file like this:

..

[github.com/skx/asql]
checkout = git clone git@github.com:skx/asql.git

[github.com/skx/bookmarks.public]
checkout = git clone git@github.com:skx/bookmarks.public.git

[github.com/skx/Buffalo-220-NAS]
checkout = git clone git@github.com:skx/Buffalo-220-NAS.git

[github.com/skx/calibre-plugins]
checkout = git clone git@github.com:skx/calibre-plugins.git

...

You can clone all the repositories with one command:

mr -j5 --config .mrconfig.github checkout

Then pull/update them them easily:

mr -j5 --config .mrconfig.github update

It works with git repositories, mercurial, and more. (The -j5 argument means to run five jobs in parallel. Much speed, many fast. Big wow.)

I wrote a simple golang utility to use the github API to generate a suitable configuration including:

• All your personal repositories.
• All the repositories which belong to organizations you're a member of.

Currently it only supports github, but I'll update to include self-hosted and API-compatible services such as gitbucket. Is there any interest in such a tool? Or have you all written your own already?

(I have the feeling I've written this tool in Perl, Ruby, and even using curl a time or two already. This time I'll do it properly and publish it to save effort next time!)

Tags: github, golang, mr, myrepos | 2 comments