Giterate

1. Overview
2. Installation
3. Configuration
4. Usage
5. Examples
6. Roadmap

Overview

Giterate is a wrapper that will help you to easily deal with multiple git repositories from multiple sources.

With Giterate, you can:

• recursively clone repositories accross gitlab groups / bitbucket projects according to JSON or YAML configuration file
• execute almost all git commands on all (or filtered subset of) repositories
• execute custom git commands

Installation

Binaries

• Download the latest release binary corresponding to your system
• For Linux: put the binary somewhere on your path (example: /usr/bin)
• For Windows: put the binary somewhere on your computer (example: C:/giterate) and update the path variable

Configuration

By default, giterate will use config.json or config.yaml file (in this order) in ~/.giterate folder Each git provider will have the same available parameters:

• BaseURL: Base URL of the git provider
• Name: Name of the git provider (easier to filter with --provider base URL or name)
• API: Type of api (can be gitlab, bitbucketv1, bitbucketv2 or github)
• ApiURI: URI of the api
• ApiToken: API token (required with ssh authentication)
• CloneType: Type of authentication (can be ssh or http)
• Username: username for authentication
• Password: password for authentication
• SSHPrivateKeyPath: absolute path to private key (required with ssh authentication)
• Destination: default destination directory
• CloneOptions: global clone options array
  • Key: Name of the clone option
  • Value: Value of the clone option
• Entities: List of repositories and groups to clone
  • Type: Type of entity, can be repository or group
  • Path: path to the entity (e.g. group, project, etc)
  • Name: name to the entity (e.g. name of the group, name of the repository)
  • Destination: destination absolute path. If not given, will take the default destination + path of entity
  • Recurse: in case of group, will clone recursively
  • CloneOptions: clone options array
    • Key: Name of the clone option
    • Value: Value of the clone option

You can find an example of configuration file on this repository

Usage

Available commands

• clone: clone repositories according to configuration file

  • if the repository already exists or is already clone, it will not be updated
  • parameters:
    • --force: will clean all an recreate from conf
    • -r, --repository URL or path: target one or multiple repositories (chain multiple times)
    • -p, --provider base URL or name: target one or multiple providers (chain multiple times)

• pull: pull repositories on current branches according to configuration file

  • parameters
    • -r, --repository URL or path: target one or multiple repositories (chain multiple times)
    • -p, --provider base URL or name: target one or multiple providers (chain multiple times)

• fetch: fetch repositories on current branches according to configuration file

  • parameters
    • -r, --repository URL or path: target one or multiple repositories (chain multiple times)
    • -p, --provider base URL or name: target one or multiple providers (chain multiple times)

• status: check status of each git repositories according to configuration file

  • parameters
    • -f, --full: show status of all repositories, even if there's no uncommited changes
    • -r, --repository URL or path: target one or multiple repositories (chain multiple times)
    • -p, --provider base URL or name: target one or multiple providers (chain multiple times)

• checkout: checkout the configured/default branch on all repositories

  • parameters
    • --force: reset uncommited changes
    • -r, --repository URL or path: target one or multiple repositories (chain multiple times)
    • -p, --provider base URL or name: target one or multiple providers (chain multiple times)

• commit: check changes and ask for commit message in case of changes

  • if you don't provide any message, it will go to the next one without commiting
  • parameters
    • -g, --global: define a single message for all commits (you'll have to answer "yes" instead of providing a message)
    • -r, --repository URL or path: target one or multiple repositories (chain multiple times)
    • -p, --provider base URL or name: target one or multiple providers (chain multiple times)

• push: push commited changes

  • if you don't provide any message, it will go to the next one without commiting
  • parameters
    • --force: push without asking
    • -r, --repository URL or path: target one or multiple repositories (chain multiple times)
    • -p, --provider base URL or name: target one or multiple providers (chain multiple times)

• providers: list configured providers

• repositories: list configured repositories

  • parameters
    • -p, --provider base URL or name: target one or multiple providers (chain multiple times)

• exec: execute a custom git command

  • parameters
    • -c, --command 'command' : command to be executed
    • -r, --repository URL or path: target one or multiple repositories (chain multiple times)
    • -p, --provider base URL or name: target one or multiple providers (chain multiple times)

Global parameters

• --config-file: set json/yaml configuration file path
• --log-level: set log level (info, warn, error, debug). default: info

Available services

• Gitlab (https://www.github.com/xanzy/go-gitlab)
• Bitbucket V1 (https://www.github.com/gfleury/go-bitbucket-v1)
• Bitbucket V2 (https://www.github.com/ktrysmt/go-bitbucket)
• Github (https://www.github.com/google/go-github/github)

Examples

Basic clone command

giterate clone

Use alternative config file

giterate clone --config-file ~/giterate-config.json

Pull from a specific provider name from the configuration file

giterate pull --provider gitlab-mycompany

Get the status of a specific provider URL from the configuration file

giterate status --provider https://gitlab.mycompany.com

Repository: https://gitlab.mycompany.com (/home/usr/giterate/mycompany)
Branch: master
Changes:
MM crypted.auto.tfvars
 M directory/file.json
 M directory2/other_file.php

Repository: https://gitlab.mycompany.com (/home/usr/giterate/mycompany)
Branch: develop
Changes:
 M file.txt
MM other_file.json

Commit

giterate commit

Repository: ssh://git@gitlab.*****.com:7999/path/repo.git (/home/usr/giterate/gitlab/repo)
Branch: production
Changes:
 M full/path/to/file.pp

Enter commit message (let empty to ignore): update puppet configuration for repo


Repository: https://git.****.com/path/other_repo.git (/home/usr/giterate/gitlab/other_repo)
Branch: master
Changes:
 M full/path/to/file.json

Enter commit message (let empty to ignore): update json configuration for other_repo

Execute a custom command on a subset of repositories

giterate exec -c 'reset --hard' -r /home/usr/giterate/bitbucketv1/repo1 -r /home/usr/giterate/bitbucketv1/repo2

Roadmap

• implement tests
• implement parameters