gits

Git manager for multiple repositories with GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket support.

• Features
• Install
• Usage
• Configuration
• Config Examples

Features

Use as a git clone manager, and while developing on multiple git repositories.

• GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket/filesystem support with cache
• Interactive browsing of projects/repositories/branches/tags
• Clone/fetch/pull for multiple repositories
• Show one-line status with icons for all repositories
• List projects as table/tree/json/name
• Checkout branches interactively
• Configurable by YAML/JSON/TOML

Install

On macOS with Homebrew:

brew install rafi/tap/gits

Or install gits with Go:

go install github.com/rafi/gits

Usage

Usage: gits [command] <project>

Available Commands:

• add — Add repository to a project
• browse — Browse branches and tags
• cd — Get repository path
• checkout — Traverse repositories and optionally checkout branch
• clone — Clone all repositories for specified project(s)
• fetch — Fetch and prune from all remotes
• help — Help about any command
• list — List all projects or their repositories
• orphan — Finds orphan repository
• pull — Pull repositories
• status — Shows Git repositories short status
• sync — Synchronize project caches
• version — Shows current version

gits is configured by a YAML file. See examples. gits will look for a config file at ~/.gits.yaml or $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/gits/.git.yaml.

You can run gits with project names as arguments, or a local path to a directory containing multiple projects.

Examples:

gits                # list all commands
gits list           # list all projects
gits list acme      # list all project 'acme' repositories

gits status acme    # show status for project 'acme' repositories
gits status ~/code  # show status for all repositories at path
gits status .       # show status for all repositories at current path

To use gits cd — source ./contrib/cdgit.sh in your shell ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc, and use cdgit to navigate to a repository.

Configuration

Configuration file must be present at ~/.gits.yaml or $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/gits/.gits.yaml.

Warning

Each project in config file can either have a source or repos key, not both.

The structure of the config file is as follows:

---
# ~/.gits.yaml

# Project definition
projectname:          # Project name
  desc: My projects   # Optional
  path: ~/code/github # Optional if 'repos' are specified and have absolute paths.
  source:             # Required if no 'repos' defined, default: filesystem
    type: github      # Required: github|gitlab|bitbucket|filesystem
    search: rafi      # Required search query (organization, user name, group id)
  repos:              # Required if no 'source' defined
    - dir: foo        # Optional, default: repository name
      src: git@...    # Optional, default: repository remote URL
    - ...

anotherproject:
  ...

Config Examples

Each project in the following example is defined differently:

---
# ~/.gits.yaml

# Github source.
mygithub:
  source:
    type: github
    search: rafi

# GitLab source, note that `path` and `desc` are optional.
work:
  path: ~/code/work
  desc: My work GitLab projects
  source:
    type: gitlab
    search: "12345678"  # Make sure GitLab group id is quoted

# Bitbucket source.
mybitbucket:
  source:
    type: bitbucket
    search: rafi

# Filesystem source that will be searched recursively.
explore:
  desc: Exploring projects
  path: ~/code/explore
  source:
    type: filesystem

# Relative directory name and implicit remote source URL.
acme:
  path: ~/code/acme
  desc: Acme is a really cool app.
  repos:
  - dir: admin
  - dir: ant-design-pro
  - dir: api
  - dir: infra
  - dir: ios
  - dir: react-native
  - dir: web
  - dir: webapp

# Relative directory name and explicit remote source URL.
myapp:
  path: ~/code/myapp
  repos:
  - dir: api                             # Can be absolute or relative to path
    src: https://github.com/app/api.git  # Optional remote clone URL
  - dir: ios
    src: https://github.com/app/ios.git
  - dir: android
    src: https://github.com/app/android.git

# Absolute directories and explicit remote source URL. (No project path)
rafi:
  desc: My dotfiles
  repos:
  - dir: ~/.config
    src: git@github.com:rafi/.config.git
  - dir: ~/.config/nvim
    src: git@github.com:rafi/vim-config.git