¬ just serendipity 🍀 (not just serendipity)

myrepos:

You have a lot of version control repositories. Sometimes you want to update them all at once. Or push out all your local changes. You use special command lines in some repositories to implement specific workflows. Myrepos provides a mr command, which is a tool to manage all your version control repositories.

I use mr to manage my local git checkouts, see my ~/.mrconfig.

From $HOME, running mr update keeps all managed repositories up-to-date (git fetch / git pull).

Problem statement: Extend (chain) my mrconfig with git repositories from work.

I keep my git repos from work in ~/Corp.

Changing directory to it and running mr update updates work repos only.

The goal is to have mr update in ~ perform updates for personal AND work repos. We can achieve this with configuration chaining.

This commit addresses it:

# chain corp repositories
include = test -f $HOME/Corp/.mrconfig && sed 's|^\[\([^/DEFAULT]\)|[Corp/\1|' $HOME/Corp/.mrconfig || true

Rationale: If ~/Corp/.mrconfig exists, include it in the original ~/.mrconfig. The sed expression is necessary to adjust relative paths when operating on work repos, so that they all stay within ~/Corp, otherwise they would be cloned in ~.

The test and || true is to make this inclusion optional, with graceful degradation in case the work .mrconfig does not exist, thereby simply skipping it.