Feature request: keeping repositories up to date

[jrasanen]

Hi,

first of all, thank you for this tool. I've been doing the same manually until I found this from Lobsters.

Currently, I have hundreds of git repositories structured precisely like this and I have a crude shell script to keep them up to date.

Do you think it would be out of scope for git-grab to also keep the git repository remotes found at $GRAB_HOME updated?

Thanks!

[wezm]

I think it probably is out of scope for git-grab. However, what did you imagine git-grab would do that your current script doesn't? Alternatively I've seen a number of tools and scripts over the years that seem to tackle this problem. Perhaps check out https://myrepos.branchable.com/ if that doesn't work for you there's a bit list of related tools at the bottom of the page that might be worth checking out too.

[wezm]

first of all, thank you for this tool. I've been doing the same manually until I found this from Lobsters.

Oh I'm also curious where you saw it on Lobsters?

[jrasanen]

Oh I'm also curious where you saw it on Lobsters?

Actually, I remembered wrong, I found this from a private irc-channel, my mistake.

I think it probably is out of scope for git-grab

After thinking this a bit more, what happens if the directory already exists? Would it make sense to define the fallback behaviour to do an update operation, perhaps behind a command-line flag?

My use case then would be iterating a text file of repository URLs, passing them to git grab periodically using a crontab.

[wezm]

After thinking this a bit more, what happens if the directory already exists? Would it make sense to define the fallback behaviour to do an update operation, perhaps behind a command-line flag?

My use case then would be iterating a text file of repository URLs, passing them to git grab periodically using a crontab.

Currently it will abort the clone because the directory already exists. Hmm I think one of the other existing tools would be better for this. E.g. https://github.com/gerdreiss/gitallup

I think I'll consider this out of scope for now.

[jrasanen]

I think I'll consider this out of scope for now.

Completely understand, thanks for replying! 👌🏽