sources is a command-line script to help get/clone/checkout and update source repos. It works like this:

1. You write a ".sources" file (typically in your home dir, but you can have one or more of them in any dir) that looks like this:

    ~/personal/eol  git git@github.com:trentm/eol.git
    # You can specify a git branch to checkout:
    ~/personal/eol-devel  git git@github.com:trentm/eol.git develop
    ~/personal/pics hg  https://trentm@bitbucket.org/trentm/pics/
    ~/work/komodo   svn https://svn.activestate.com/repos/activestate/komodo/trunk
   

   I.e. a mapping of repos you work with and the directory in which you prefer to work on it.

2. You get/clone/checkout and update repos as follows:

    sources ~/personal  # get/update all my personal repos
    sources -l          # list sources under cwd
    sources             # get/update all sources under cwd
    sources -n ...      # dry-run
    sources -x ...      # exclude submodules (git) and externals (svn) from a clone
   

I find it useful to track repos I tend to work with, without having to lookup the repo URLs everytime when jumping between machines.

This project lives here: http://github.com/trentm/sources

Installation

To install in your Python's global site-packages use one of the following:

pip install sources
pypm install sources   # if you use ActivePython (http://www.activestate.com/activepython)

But you use a virtualenv, right? If so, then use one of the following:

pip -E path/to/env install sources
pypm -E path/to/env install sources

Alternatively, you can just get the "lib/sources.py" script and put in out your PATH.