gitcommonsync 2.0.0

A tool to synchronise common files between Git repositories

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# Git Common Sync
_A tool to synchronise common files between Git repositories._


## Features
- Programmatically synchronises git repositories according to a specification.
- Supports synchronisation of:
- Files and directories.
- Directories managed by [git-subrepo](https://github.com/ingydotnet/git-subrepo).
- Content generated using templates and project specific values.
- Ansible support.


## How to use
### Prerequisites
- git >= 2.10.0
- git-subrepo >= 0.3.1
- python >= 3.6
- rsync >= 3.1.1


### Installation
#### Ansible Module
```yaml
- gitcommonsync:
repository: http://www.example.com/repository.git
author_name: Ansible Synchroniser
author_email: [e-mail]
key_file: /custom/id_rsa
files:
- src: /example/README.md
dest: README.md
overwrite: false
- src: /example/directory/
dest: config
templates:
- src: /example/ansible-groups.sh.j2
dest: ci/before_scripts.d/start.sh
variables:
message: "Hello world"
overwrite: true
subrepos:
- src: http://www.example.com/other-repository.git
dest: subrepos/other-repository
branch: master
overwrite: true
```


## Development
### Setup
Install both library dependencies and the dependencies needed for testing:
```bash
$ pip install -q -r requirements.txt
$ pip install -q -r test_requirements.txt
```

### Testing
To run the tests and generate a coverage report with unittest:
```bash
./test-runner.sh
```
If you wish to run the tests inside a Docker container (recommended), build `Docker.test`.


## Alternatives
- Powerful but complex Ruby based alternative from the Puppet community: https://github.com/voxpupuli/modulesync.


## License
[MIT license](LICENSE.txt).

Copyright (c) 2017 Genome Research Limited