Clonewatch

Ever wanted to easily clone a bunch of git repositories in one session without having to organise them into a directory structure by hand?

Clonewatch is a background script that monitors the system clipboard for urls recognisable as git repo urls and automatically cloning that repo into a preconfigured directory tree. Each repo host has a root directory under which account name dirs are created with their cloned repos inside.

Currently supports the following repo hosts:

• https://github.com
• https://gitlab.com
• https://bitbucket.org
• Source Hut https://git.sr.ht

Add your own as required and send me a pull request to add it.

• Converts github.com web urls into git repo urls
• Performs clones concurrently across spawned child processes.
• Only clones if the clipboard changes
• Performs a pull if the repo already exists
• Tested on Linux and MacOS

Requirements

Uses the python library pyperclilp:

pip install pyperclip

Usage

• Edit the REPO_HOME location to the root directory of these clones. Subdirectories for github.com etc. are created underneath and subdirectories for each user or org under that. This should ensure no name clash occurs.
• Set the INTERVAL to a number of seconds for polling the clipboard. This should be higher frequency than your rate of copying urls.

The following prints the location of the log file so it can be tailed. This makes it easy to set this up as two panes in a tmux session.

clonewatch.py -l

Known Bugs

• There is a potential race condition which never happens for me so I haven't bothered to fix it.