gitutils 1.2.0

concurrent, platform-agnostic Git utilities for managing a large number of Git repositories

Git Utilities

Platform-independent (Linux/Mac/Windows) Git utilities, useful for managing large (100+) numbers of Git repos. I use command-line git because PyGit also requires command-line Git installed, and I don't need the advanced functionality.

An important feature in

ListAllGithubRepos

is showing which forks of your repos have had changes "ahead of" your code. This shows your code is being improved, even if the forked repo didn't make a pull request. I don't know of any other easy way out there to find this.

Also see Git utilities for managing large (100+) numbers of users / teams, particularly for education and institutions.

Install

Install Git in a way accessible from the command line line

• Mac: brew install git
• Linux: apt install git
• Windows: command line Git.

python -m pip install -e .

Usage

I didn't know of any other easy ways to do these Git tasks:

• gitbranch Tells of any non-master branches under directory ~/code
• git_filemode_windows Sets all git repos to don't care permissions under directory ~/code
• gitemail list all contributor email addresses. Optionally, amend email addresses for prior Git commits

Sync large number of git repos

These assume numerous subdirectories under ~/code or c:\code. They work very quickly for large numbers (100+) repos.

• gitmodified check if any local repos have pending changes
• gitcheck check if any remote repos are ahead of local
• gitpull Git pulls all repos
• gitfetch Git fetches all repos

You can place an empty file .nogit in a subdirectory to skip it.

[optional] speedup with https pull

For public repos, to make the Git remote checking go at least twice as fast, and significantly reduce the computational burden when SSH is used for git push (as is recommended), consider the "pushInsteadOf" global Git config. To do this, when cloning a public repo (including ones you're a collaborator on), use git clone https://. This global SSH push config one-time does SSH push for HTTPS-cloned repos:

git config --global url."ssh://github.com/".pushInsteadOf https://github.com/

The pattern matching can be made for all sites by omitting github.com from the command above, or you can refine it for each site, or even for specific usernames by editing the command above. For private repos, simply clone with SSH as usual

Preview all changed Jekyll files

This is for a website made using Jekyll:

ActOnChanged -j

Github

Python GitHub API

Most users will need a GitHub API token, as the unauthenticated API access is severly limited.

1. Generate GitHub API token with ONLY the user:email permission.
2. Copy that text string to a secure location on your computer.

GitHub user stats

ListAllGithubRepos username OauthKey Gives stats on GitHub repos for a particular user. It requires extra prereqs via:

pip install -e .[github]