β mr update
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Every day at the office, I start my day with mr update:
% mr update
[...]
mr update: /Users/thiago.perrotta/workspace/adventofcode
Already up to date.
mr update: /Users/thiago.perrotta/workspace/check-json-schema-meta
Already up to date.
mr update: /Users/thiago.perrotta/workspace/homebrew-taps
Already up to date.
mr update: /Users/thiago.perrotta/workspace/pre-commit-hooks
Already up to date.
mr update: /Users/thiago.perrotta/workspace/pancake
Already up to date.
[...]mr is short for 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.
mr is a single tool to control multiple DVCSes at once β typically git, but
others are also supported:
All you need to get started is some already checked out repos. These could be using git, or bzr, mercurial or darcs, or many other version control systems. Doesn’t matter, they’re all supported!
The example output above was lame because nothing changed β they’re my personal repositories. In the git repositories of my workplace there are typically various changes to be absorbed every day.
How do we achieve this?
Refer to its man page for the config format. My config:
# vim: ft=conf
include = cat ~/.mrconfig.defaults
[.dotfiles]
checkout = git clone 'git@github.com:thiagowfx/.dotfiles.git' '.dotfiles'
[.dotfiles_corp]
checkout = git clone 'git@github.com:thiagowfx/.dotfiles_corp.git' '.dotfiles_corp'
skip = lazy
[workspace/adventofcode]
checkout = git clone 'git@github.com:thiagowfx/adventofcode' 'adventofcode'
skip = lazy
[workspace/check-json-schema-meta]
checkout = git clone 'git@github.com:thiagowfx/check-json-schema-meta' 'check-json-schema-meta'
skip = lazy
[workspace/aports]
checkout = git clone 'git@gitlab.alpinelinux.org:thiagowfx/aports.git' 'aports'
skip = lazy
update = git pull upstream master
[workspace/homebrew-taps]
checkout = git clone 'git@github.com:thiagowfx/homebrew-taps' 'homebrew-taps'
skip = lazy
[workspace/pancake]
checkout = git clone 'git@github.com:thiagowfx/pancake' 'pancake'
skip = lazy
[workspace/perrotta.dev]
checkout = git clone 'git@github.com:thiagowfx/thiagowfx.github.io.git' 'perrotta.dev'
skip = lazy
[workspace/pre-commit-hooks]
checkout = git clone 'git@github.com:thiagowfx/pre-commit-hooks' 'pre-commit-hooks'
skip = lazy# vim: ft=conf
[ALIAS]
pull = update
[DEFAULT]
git_xl = git xl "$@"
jobs = 6Backlinks
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