Mr-Repo 0.2.3

A very simple repo manager of repos.

Author:

Ryan McGowan

Email:

[e-mail]

Introduction

Mr. Repo is a repo management script written in python. It’s very simple. Basically, it turns whatever directory Mr. Repo is initialized into a configurable repository of Git repositories. It creates two files to keep track of its state.

• A YAML file (.mr_repo.yml) which keeps extended information on repositories that may appear in the directory

• Another file, (.this_repo) file keeps track of what repositories are currently available in the directory

…but why?

I have have a repo folder on several of my computers. This folder contains mostly Git repositories that I want to be avaialble on multiple computers. I use Dropbox to sync lots of files between my computers, but not the repo folder for several reasons. However, I still want to manage what I have in my repo folders across my computers. So, I’ll be syncing the .mr_repo.yml file with Dropbox and letting Mr. Repo do the rest of the work.

Usage

Run the init command to get to set up the two files by automatically interpreting subdirectories.

python mr_repo.py init [--clean]

The --clean option causes the init command create blank tracking files and to not automatically interpret subdirectories.

Once you have the files setup you can add and remove repos by their directory names with the add and remove commands.

python mr_repo.py add <repo/direcotry name>
# Or to remove a repo
python mr_repo.py rm <repo/direcotry name>

You can also automatically reinterpret the current directory with the update command.

python mr_repo.py update

That’s all the boring stuff. The part of Mr. Repo that’s actually useful is its ability to pull repos you’ve added from other places, but aren’t available in your current directory.

To determine what repos you have just use the list command. By default the list command outputs a list of currently available repos. Using the -a flag also displays information about unavailable repos (i.e. repos that are not currently set up in the CWD). As you might expect the -n flag can be used to display repos that are not currently available.

python mr_repo.py list [-a | --all] [-n | --not-available]

Once you know what repos are or are not currently available you can get/unget them.

python mr_repo.py get <not currently available repo name>
python mr_repo.py unget [-f | --force] <currently available repo name>

The unget command removes the repo if all changes have been fully committed and also updates the .this_repo file. In the case where a there are uncomitted changes an error is thrown and the command fails. If the user wants to remove it anyways then the user can add the -f flag to force the removal.