vcspull 1.36.0

Manage and sync multiple git, mercurial, and svn repos

$ vcspull ·

Manage and sync multiple git, svn, and mercurial repos via JSON or YAML file. Compare to myrepos, mu-repo. Built on libvcs.

Great if you use the same repos at the same locations across multiple machines or want to clone / update a pattern of repos without having to cd into each one.

• clone / update to the latest repos with $ vcspull
• use filters to specify a location, repo url or pattern in the manifest to clone / update
• supports svn, git, hg version control systems
• automatically checkout fresh repositories
• supports pip-style URL's (RFC3986-based url scheme)

See the documentation, configuration examples, and config generators.

How to

Install

$ pip install --user vcspull

Or using uv:

$ uv tool install vcspull

For one-time use without installation:

$ uvx vcspull

Developmental releases

You can test the unpublished version of vcspull before its released.

• pip:

  $ pip install --user --upgrade --pre vcspull
  

• pipx:

  $ pipx install --suffix=@next 'vcspull' --pip-args '\--pre' --force
  

  Then use vcspull@next sync [config]....

• uv:

  $ uv tool install --prerelease=allow vcspull
  

Configuration

Add your repos to ~/.vcspull.yaml. You can edit the file by hand or let vcspull import create entries for you.

~/code/:
  flask: "git+https://github.com/mitsuhiko/flask.git"
~/study/c:
  awesome: "git+git://git.naquadah.org/awesome.git"
~/study/data-structures-algorithms/c:
  libds: "git+https://github.com/zhemao/libds.git"
  algoxy:
    repo: "git+https://github.com/liuxinyu95/AlgoXY.git"
    remotes:
      tony: "git+ssh://[e-mail]/tony/AlgoXY.git"

(see the author's .vcspull.yaml, more configuration)

$HOME/.vcspull.yaml and $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/vcspull/ (~/.config/vcspull) can be used as a declarative manifest to clone your repos consistently across machines. Subsequent syncs of initialized repos will fetch the latest commits.

Import repositories from the CLI

Register an existing remote without touching YAML manually:

$ vcspull import my-lib https://github.com/example/my-lib.git --path ~/code/my-lib

• Omit --path to default the entry under ./.
• Use --dir when you want to force a specific base-directory key, e.g. --dir ~/projects/libs.
• Pass -c/--config to import into an alternate YAML file.
• Follow with vcspull sync my-lib to clone or update the working tree after registration.

Scan local checkouts and import en masse

Have a directory tree full of cloned Git repositories? Scan and append them to your configuration:

$ vcspull import --scan ~/code --recursive

The scan shows each repository before import unless you opt into --yes. Add --base-dir-key ~/code/ to pin the resulting section name or --config to write somewhere other than the default ~/.vcspull.yaml.

Normalize configuration files

After importing or editing by hand, run the formatter to tidy up keys and keep entries sorted:

$ vcspull fmt --config ~/.vcspull.yaml --write

Use vcspull fmt --all --write to format every YAML file that vcspull can discover under the standard config locations.

Sync your repos

$ vcspull sync

Keep nested VCS repositories updated too, lets say you have a mercurial or svn project with a git dependency:

external_deps.yaml in your project root (any filename will do):

./vendor/:
  sdl2pp: "git+https://github.com/libSDL2pp/libSDL2pp.git"

Clone / update repos via config file:

$ vcspull sync -c external_deps.yaml '*'

See the Quickstart for more.

Pulling specific repos

Have a lot of repos?

you can choose to update only select repos through fnmatch patterns. remember to add the repos to your ~/.vcspull.{json,yaml} first.

The patterns can be filtered by by directory, repo name or vcs url.

Any repo starting with "fla":

$ vcspull sync "fla*"

Any repo with django in the name:

$ vcspull sync "*django*"

Search by vcs + url, since urls are in this format +://:

$ vcspull sync "git+*"

Any git repo with python in the vcspull:

$ vcspull sync "git+*python*

Any git repo with django in the vcs url:

$ vcspull sync "git+*django*"

All repositories in your ~/code directory:

$ vcspull sync "$HOME/code/*"

Donations

Your donations fund development of new features, testing and support. Your money will go directly to maintenance and development of the project. If you are an individual, feel free to give whatever feels right for the value you get out of the project.

See donation options at https://tony.sh/support.html.

More information

• Python support: >= 3.9, pypy
• VCS supported: git(1), svn(1), hg(1)
• Source: https://github.com/vcs-python/vcspull
• Docs: https://vcspull.git-pull.com
• Changelog: https://vcspull.git-pull.com/history.html
• API: https://vcspull.git-pull.com/api.html
• Issues: https://github.com/vcs-python/vcspull/issues
• Test Coverage: https://codecov.io/gh/vcs-python/vcspull
• pypi: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/vcspull
• Open Hub: https://www.openhub.net/p/vcspull
• License: MIT.