[ANNOUNCE] metagit 0.1.2

[ANNOUNCE] metagit 0.1.2

[Christian Dietrich]

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Hi,
I wanted to announce my project metagit[1], which I started a few weeks
ago. It is a python program, which allows you to manage many scm
repositories at once, e.g. pull all repositories, that are matched by a
given regex. Before you can use it you have to define a set of
repositories. This can either be accomplished by defining them one by
one, or you can use a repo lister. 

One good example of a repo lister is the SSHDir lister. It performs a
find on a remote server within a given directory and adds all the
repositories there to your repo set. There is also a lister to get all
your github repos (or gitorious).

But metagit isn't narrowed to git as scm. At this point it also gives
you the possibility to use mercurial as scm backend and you can clone
your damned fucked SVN repo with git-svn (with the externals, if you wish).

The configuration is just a python script, where you can use the power
of python to define your repositories, and no package is used that isn't
shipped with python (at minimum python 2.5 (it workes perfectly with
debian stable)). 

You can also define policies which of your defined repos (or listers)
show up on a machine (this is done by a regex against the fqdn).

If you have any wish what metagit should also be able to do, write me a
mail, write a issue at github or fork it :-)

greetz didi

[1] http://github.com/stettberger/metagit
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Re: [ANNOUNCE] metagit 0.1.2

[Miles Bader]

Christian Dietrich <stettberger@dokucode.de> writes:
> If you have any wish what metagit should also be able to do, write me a
> mail, write a issue at github or fork it :-)

Not require python?

-Miles

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Re: [ANNOUNCE] metagit 0.1.2

[Thomas Koch]

Christian Dietrich:
> Hi,
> I wanted to announce my project metagit[1], which I started a few weeks
> ago.
Would you mind comparing your project with
http://kitenet.net/~joey/code/mr/ ?

Best regards,

Thomas Koch, http://www.koch.ro

Re: [ANNOUNCE] metagit 0.1.2

[Christian Dietrich]

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Thomas Koch <thomas@koch.ro> writes:

> Would you mind comparing your project with
> http://kitenet.net/~joey/code/mr/ ?

I didn't know mr, when i started hacking metagit (which was based on an
Idea mit mschilli in the German Linux Magazin). My focus was always,
that i can run the same config on all of my machines, because I tend to
have all my documents in single git repos (e.g. every course at
university is a git repo).

To make this happen, i needed to define some modules that list me all my
repositories on the server where my university stuff is. But i didn't
want to see my uni stuff at work, so i needed policies where the repos
should come up. As i see these features aren't implemented directly in
mr.

For my work, where svn with svn:externals is used, I implemented the
svn:externals support, where all the externals are cloned
recursivly. (You can even define if a given command is executed on the
externals or not). This is also a feature mr doesn't have.

And there is the simple, but useful metagit cd, which echos a cd command
to a repository path. So with the bash function

mm () {
        $(metagit cd $@)
}

I can simply jump to the metagit repo with `mm meta', where ever it was put.

On the other hand metagit doesn't implement recording of actions if
you're offline. And of course the most important point that metagit is
worse than mr is, as already mentioned, that it is written in python and
not in perl. 

greetz didi
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Re: [ANNOUNCE] metagit 0.1.2

[Jakub Narebski]

Christian Dietrich <stettberger@dokucode.de> writes:

> I wanted to announce my project metagit[1], which I started a few weeks
> ago. It is a python program, which allows you to manage many scm
> repositories at once, e.g. pull all repositories, that are matched by a
> given regex. Before you can use it you have to define a set of
> repositories. This can either be accomplished by defining them one by
> one, or you can use a repo lister. 
[...]

> [1] http://github.com/stettberger/metagit

Could you add short description about this project in appriopriate place
on https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/InterfacesFrontendsAndTools
page?

Thanks in advance.
-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
ShadeHawk on #git

Re: [ANNOUNCE] metagit 0.1.2

[Christian Dietrich]

Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:
> Could you add short description about this project in appriopriate place
> on https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/InterfacesFrontendsAndTools
> page?

Added it. I hope it is in the right place now.

greetz didi
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