The Vending CLI

This tool allows users to install, manage and update dependencies. See the example to see how it works.

Features

• Local caching of repositories: speeds up the installation and update commands since a full clone is not required every time.

• Highly customizable tool: develop your custom presets, adapt, and standardize the vendoring process to your needs.

• Parallelized vendoring process: dependencies are vendored in parallel during install or update operations, this further enhances speed due to the I/O required to clone or fetch the upstreams.

Usage

• vending init initializes a .vendor.yml file in the working directory
• vending add adds a dependency in the .vendor.yml file
• vending install downloads and vendors the vendor the specified dependencies
  • The first time this command is executed, it will generate a .vendor-lock.yml which keeps track of the locked reference that has been vendored (eg. a specific commit)
  • Once the lock file already exists, it vendors dependencies at the specified locked reference.
• vending update ignores the vendor-lock.yml and fetches newest dependencies according to the refname that is specified in the .vendor.yml file