fsyncer 1.0.2

Keep your repositories up-to-date all the time.

Fork Syncer – Fsyncer

This is a small python application to keep all your remote forks up-to-date.

Usage

Installing

pip install fsyncer

Running

From a cron job for example which runs every day / week / month…

export FSYNC_GITHUB_TOKEN=<github_token_with_repo_access_scope>
fsyncer

Filter Repositories

It’s possible to provide a list of repositories that Fsyncer should deal with. In that case, the list of forks will be filtered down to the provided list. That files location is ~/.config/fsyncer/.repo_list.

Example:

my_awesome_repo
my_other_awesome_repo
and_sync_this_one

In this case if there are other repositories for that user, they will all be ignored and only these three will be synced.

Requirements

Fsynver runs git in the background on the given environment. If the installed git can push to a repository then so can Fsyncer. Hence the requirement is only to have a valid git client with properly set up credentials.

fsyncer also requires a token to be present on the current machine to gather data, like remote forks and username.

This environment property is FSYNC_GITHUB_TOKEN.

Restrictions

Only forks can be updated which can be fast forwarded for now. Fsyncer will not try to do git magic or trying to resolve merge conflicts. If the push doesn’t work, it will skip that repository and move on to the next one.

Future

Future plans include:

1. Creating a cron job with an optional parameter for the current user

2. Documentation

3. Support other VCSs

Contributions

Are always welcomed.