git-sarah is a simple script that uses git and ssh to copy the
current state of your repository (including uncommitted changes) to a
remote computer and runs a command there.
A typical use case is compiling and/or testing your program on a more powerful machine.
Suppose you have a program that need to be compiled by running
make in the build directory. So on your local machine the program
can be compiled by:
cd build
make
To use git-sarah to compile the program on a server, prepare the
repository on the server:
ssh me@server
mkdir program_dir
cd program_dir
git init
logout
Then compile the program by running:
cd build
git sarah me@server program_dir -- make
The absolute paths in the output of make, running on the server
will be modified to match your local computer, so that your editor/IDE
will be able to jump to the error locations reported by the compiler
(if any).
If you want to run more than a single command, e.g. a whole script, but don't want to commit it to the repository, you can run the script as follows:
git sarah me@server program_dir -- sh < ./script.sh