gitpkg

A git powered package manager built on top of submodules.

Install

The recommended way to install git-pkg is via pipx:

$ pipx install gitpkg

Usage

The first thing you need to do to make your project work with git pkg is add a destination. A destination is a place where your packages will be installed into, you can have multiple of these.

Install a destination by using:

$ git pkg dest add addons

The directory does not have to exist, it will be automatically generated.

Next we need to install packages lets do so by:

$ git pkg add https://github.com/coppolaemilio/dialogic

But wait! While we now have an addons/dialogic directory, the thing we actually wanted there is now at addons/dialogic/addons/dialogic

Many projects, in this case Godot projects have the thing that is important to us in a subdirectory, to have this subdirectory in the desired location we have to define it as the package root by:

# You can just re-run this it will reconfigurate the package
$ git pkg add https://github.com/coppolaemilio/dialogic --package-root addons/dialogic
# OR: short hand
$ git pkg add https://github.com/coppolaemilio/dialogic -r addons/dialogic

Nice! But what do I do if the repository name and the directory I want is different?

Lets look at the next example:

$ git pkg add https://github.com/viniciusgerevini/godot-aseprite-wizard.git -r addons/AsepriteWizard

While this again will add addons/godot-aseprite-wizard we want the directory name to be AsepriteWizard we can do this by:

$ git pkg add https://github.com/viniciusgerevini/godot-aseprite-wizard.git -r addons/AsepriteWizard --name AsepriteWizard
# OR:
$ git pkg add https://github.com/viniciusgerevini/godot-aseprite-wizard.git --package-root-with-name addons/AsepriteWizard
# OR: actual shorthand
$ git pkg add https://github.com/viniciusgerevini/godot-aseprite-wizard.git -rn addons/AsepriteWizard

Oh no! Now we have addons/godot-aseprite-wizard and addons/AsepriteWizard... why? Names are essential for identifying projects so this can not be updated, we just have to remove the unwanted package now:

$ git pkg remove godot-aseprite-wizard

Nice! Now we can finally get back to work!

A few days later...

It looks like the packages received some updates! To update all installed packages simply run:

$ git pkg update
# You can also update singular packages by providing their names
$ git pkg update dialogic AsepriteWizard

Since this is powered by git submodules, you have to commit the update.

Motivation

Managing other git repositories as dependencies is essentially a very good idea but git submodules are a pain to work with so there came the idea of having a simpler approach that feels more like using something like npm, composer etc.

I mostly wrote this to use this in Godot projects to manage the addons I install but quickly realized this can be used for a lot of programming languages where package managers are not an option.

This is essentially just an opinionated wrapper around git and git submodules.

License

GNU General Public License v3