Re: [PATCH] Allow fetching from multiple repositories at once

[Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>]

Dear diary, on Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 07:44:21AM CEST, I got a letter
where Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> said that...
> So, you need some kind of porcelain for this. The idea is that instead of
> telling git-fetch-pack a single repository, you pass multiple --repo=
> parameters and refs always "belong" to the latest mentioned repository;
> when outputting the new ref values, the appropriate repo is mentioned near
> each ref. In order for this to be useful, on your local side you should
> share the objects database in some way - either using alternates (then
> you must fetch to an object database reachable from everywhere) or symlinked
> object databases.
> 
> You still need to pass git-fetch-pack some URL in addition to the
> repositories - it is used only for git_connect(), the purpose is that
> repositories must be local directories so if you want to talk remote, you
> need to do something like
> 
> 	git-fetch-pack git://kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git --repo=/pub/scm/git/git.git master next --repo=/pub/scm/cogito/cogito.git master

This is a simple "porcelain" for it:

-->8--

#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;

# Remember that you must ensure the obj database is shared - either symlink it
# or setup alternates!
#my $remoteurl = 'git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git';
#my %config = (
#	'/pub/scm/git/git.git' => {
#		'next' => {
#			'/home/xpasky/q/gg' => 'origin'
#		},
#		'master' => {
#			'/home/xpasky/q/gg' => 'origin2',
#			'/home/xpasky/q/gg2' => 'origin'
#		}
#	},
#	'/pub/scm/cogito/cogito-doc.git' => {
#		master => {
#			'/home/xpasky/q/gg2' => 'origin2'
#		}
#	}
#);
my $remoteurl = 'puturlofremotehosthere';
my %config = (
	'remoterepo1' => {
		branch1 => {
			'localrepo1' => 'origin'
		},
		branch2 => {
			'localrepo1' => 'origin2',
			'localrepo2' => 'origin'
		}
	},
	'remoterepo2' => {
		master => {
			'localrepo2' => 'origin2'
		}
	}
);

my @args = ($remoteurl);
foreach my $repo (keys %config) {
	push (@args, '--repo='.$repo);
	foreach my $branch (keys %{$config{$repo}}) {
		push (@args, $branch);
	}
}

open (F, '-|', 'git-fetch-pack', @args) or die "$!";
while (<F>) {
	chomp;
	split / /, $_;
	my ($sha, $ref, $repo) = @_;
	$ref =~ s#^refs/heads/##;
	foreach my $lrepo (keys %{$config{$repo}->{$ref}}) {
		system("GIT_DIR=$lrepo git-update-ref $config{$repo}->{$ref}->{$lrepo} $sha");
	}
}
close (F);

-- 
				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/
Snow falling on Perl. White noise covering line noise.
Hides all the bugs too. -- J. Putnam