For the past few months I've been really busy coding on stuff that puts food on the table… And sadly, I cannot give this project all the love it deserves. Which is why it's taken me months to spend a few hours merge and release the PRs featured in this repository.
I'm still using this project daily, but I'm not having enough time to keep on putting all the effort needed to make it shine (SSH keys, issues support…)
So I'd like to share the maintenance responsibility with someone or more people. If you're interested, please ping me on IRC or by mail (which is in all my commits). I'm always happy to guide through the code's design!
Control your remote git hosting services from the git
commandline. The usage is
very simple (full usage list in the sources). To clone a new project, out of GitHub, just issue:
% git hub clone guyzmo/git-repo
But that works also with a project from GitLab, Bitbucket, your own GitLab or Gogs:
% git lab clone guyzmo/git-repo
% git bb clone guyzmo/git-repo
% git myprecious clone guyzmo/git-repo
% git gg clone guyzmo/git-repo
If you want to choose the default branch to clone:
% git lab clone guyzmo/git-repo master
Though sometimes, as you're starting a new project, you want to create a new repository to push to:
% git hub create guyzmo/git-repo
actually the namespace is facultative, as per default you can (and want to) only create new repositories within your own account.
You might also want to add an existing remote ref to your workspace, and that can be easily done with:
% git lab add guyzmo/git-repo
Which will add https://gitlab.com/guyzmo/git-repo
as the gitlab
remote!
Also, you can fork a repository using:
% git hub fork neovim/neovim
and of course, you can delete it using:
% git bb delete guyzmo/git-repo
Also, you can open the repository's page, using the open
command:
% git lab open guyzmo/git-repo
Successfully fetched branch `2` of `guyzmo/git-repo` into `request-2`!
Once you're all set with your repository, you can check requests to merge
(aka Pull Requests on github) using the request
command:
% git hub request guyzmo/git-repo list
List of open requests to merge:
id title URL
2 prefer gitrepo.<target>.token > privatekey, docs https://api.github.com/repos/guyzmo/git-repo/issues/2
And fetch it locally to check and/or amend it before merging:
% git hub request guyzmo/git-repo fetch 2
Or you can create a request by doing a:
% git hub request create guyzmo/git-repo myfeature master -t 'My neat feature' -m 'So much to say about that feature…'
You can create the request also by simply calling:
% git hub request create
That command has a bit of automagic, it will:
github
remote, if called with hub
), and take this as the source of the request ;Finally, another extra feature you can play with is the gist handling:
% git hub gist list
id title
https://gist.github.com/4a0dd9177524b2b125e9166640666737 This is a test gist
Then you can list files within it:
% git hub gist list a7ce4fddba7744ddf335
language size name
Python 1048 unicode_combined.py
% git hub -v gist list https://gist.github.com/4a0dd9177524b2b125e9166640666737
language size name
Markdown 16 README.md
Text 14 LICENSE
reStructuredText 17 README.rst
to output it locally, you can use the fetch command (and specify the file if there's more than one):
% git hub gist fetch https://gist.github.com/a7ce4fddba7744ddf335 > mygist.py
% git hub gist fetch 4a0dd9177524b2b125e9166640666737 LICENSE > LICENSE_from_gist
but for more thorough modifications or consulting, you can as well clone it:
% git hub gist clone 4a0dd9177524b2b125e9166640666737
Pulling from github |████████████████████████████████|
Successfully cloned `4a0dd9177524b2b125e9166640666737` into `./4a0dd9177524b2b125e9166640666737`!
And when you're done you just get rid of it:
% git hub gist -f delete 4a0dd9177524b2b125e9166640666737
Successfully deleted gist!
Nota Bene: Thanks to
git
CLI flexibility, by installinggit-repo
you directly have access to the tool usinggit-repo hub …
orgit repo hub …
. For thegit hub …
call, you have to set up aliases, see below how to configure that.
Traditionally, origin
is being used as the remote name for the code hosted on a
service, but because of the nature of git-repo
there is no single origin
but
it encourages to use multiple ones, and also leave you in control of wherever
origin
points to.
This is why when you clone from a service or create a new repo on a service, it's using a special remote that carries the name of the service:
% git hub clone foo/bar; cd bar
% git status -sb | head -1
## master...github/master
^^^^^^
% git lab create bar
% git push gitlab master
And as a bonus, each time it's adding a new remote, it's updating the all
remote,
so that you can push your code to all your remote repositories in one command:
% git push all master
Another special remote is the upstream
. When you do a fork of a project, current
special remote with a service name will be renamed as upstream
and the newly
forked project is now the one with the service name:
% git lab clone foo/bar; cd bar
% git remote
all
gitlab
% git lab fork
% git remote
all
gitlab
upstream
Finally, if you want to link other existing projects, you can, the add
command
is there for that:
% git bb add foo/bar
% # if the name is identical to current project, you don't need to add a name
% git hub add
% git gg add foo/bar gitea --alone
Use the --alone
switch if you don't want to add that project in the all
special remote.
And of course the above commands is just sugar around regular git commands, so the above can also be done with:
% git remote add gitbucket https://gitbucket.local:8080/foo/bar
% # the command to append the URL to the all remote, --alone skips this step
% git remote set-url --add all https://gitbucket.local:8080/foo/bar
And to remove a remote, just do:
% git remote remove github
You can get the tool using pypi (use pip3
if you have both Python2 and Python3 installed):
% pip install git-repo
or by getting the sources and running:
% python3 setup.py install
To configure git-repo
you simply have to call the following command:
% git repo config
and a wizard will run you through getting the authentication token for the service, add the command alias or the name of the remote. Though, configuring custom services is still not handled by the wizard…
But if you prefer manual configuration you'll have to tweak your
~/.gitconfig
. For each service you've got an account on, you have to make a
section in the gitconfig:
[gitrepo "gitlab"]
token = YourVerySecretKey
[gitrepo "github"]
token = YourOtherVerySecretKey
[gitrepo "bitbucket"]
username = ford.prefect
token = YourSecretAppKey
[gitrepo "gogs"]
fqdn = UrlOfYourGogs
token = YourVerySecretKey
Here, we're setting the basics: just the private token. Notice that the token needed for Bitbucket are an App-token, not to be confused with an OAuth-token, which are also avaiable from the Butbucket settings.
You also have the ability to set up an alias:
[gitrepo "bitbucket"]
alias = bit
username = ford.prefect
token = YourSecretAppKey
that will change the command you use for a name you'll prefer to handle actions for the service you use:
% git-repo bit clone guyzmo/git-repo
Also, you can setup your own GitLab self-hosted server, using that configuration:
[gitrepo "myprecious"]
type = gitlab
token = YourSuperPrivateKey
fqdn = gitlab.example.org
# Set this only if you use a self-signed certificate and experience problems
insecure = true
Finally, to make it really cool, you can make a few aliases in your gitconfig:
[alias]
hub = repo hub
lab = repo lab
bb = repo bb
perso = repo perso
So you can run the tool as a git subcommand:
git hub clone guyzmo/git-repo
For those who like to keep all dotfiles in a git repository, it'd be horrendous to
store tokens that offer access to your social accounts in a repository… And I'm not
even talking about those who want to share your dotfiles. But don't worry, once
it's all configured, you can fire up your favorite editor and
move all the [gitrepo …]
sections into a new file, like ~/.gitconfig-repos
.
Your can run the following command to do this automagically:
python -m git_repo.extract_config
if you want to use another path, you can change the defaults:
python -m git_repo.extract_config ~/.gitconfig-repos ~/.gitconfig
Please note: when configuration wizard will ask you for password, do not provide
your Gerrit account password, but enter HTTP password
instead. You can setup
it on Settings > HTTP Password page
You may also need to tweak your ~/.gitconfig
:
ro-suffix
if your Gerrit isn't served at server root. For example, set
ro-suffix
to /r
if your Gerrit is hosted at https://review.host.com/r
ssh-port
parameter to set custom port for ssh connection to Gerrit (default: 29418)auth-type
: basic (default) or digestFor development, start a virtualenv and from within install the devel requirements:
% virtualenv var
% var/bin/pip install -r requirements-test.txt
and then you'll have the executable in bin
:
% var/bin/git-repo --help
and to run the tests:
% var/bin/py.test --cov=git_repo --cov-report term-missing --capture=sys tests
N.B.: Buildout is no longer supported for development
You can repeat the -v
argument several times to increase the level of verbosity
of git-repo
. The more arguments you give, the more details you'll have.
-v
will set the debugging level to DEBUG
, giving some execution info ;-vv
will print out all the git commands that are being executed ;-vvv
will give more verbose insight on the git layer ;-vvvv
will output all the HTTP exchanges with the different APIs ;-vvvvv
will printout how were parsed the arguments.To run the tests:
% bin/py.test
You can use the following options for py.test to help you debug when tests fail:
-v
will show more details upon errors-x
will stop upon the first failure--pdb
will launch the debugger where an exception has been launchedThe tests use recordings of exchanged HTTP data, so that we don't need real credentials and a real connection, when testing the API on minor changes. Those recordings are called cassettes, thanks to the betamax framework being in use in the test suites.
When running existing tests, based on the provided cassettes, you don't need any
setting. Also, if you've got a configuration in ~/.gitconfig
, the tests will use
them. Anyway, you can use environment variables for those settings (environment
variables will have precedence over the configuration settings):
To use your own credentials, you can setup the following environment variables:
GITHUB_NAMESPACE
(which defaults to not_configured
) is the name of the account to use on GitHubGITLAB_NAMESPACE
(which defaults to not_configured
) is the name of the account to use on GitLabBITBUCKET_NAMESPACE
(which defaults to not_configured
) is the name of the account to use on BitbucketGOGS_NAMESPACE
(which defaults to not_configured
) is the name of the account to use on GogsPRIVATE_KEY_GITHUB
your private token you've setup on GitHub for your accountPRIVATE_KEY_GITLAB
your private token you've setup on GitLab for your accountPRIVATE_KEY_BITBUCKET
your private token you've setup on Bitbucket for your accountPRIVATE_KEY_GOGS
your private token you've setup on Gogs for your accountgit-repo fork
actionThe project and original idea has been brought and is maintained by:
With code contributions coming from:
Copyright ©2016,2017 Bernard `Guyzmo` Pratz <guyzmo+git-repo+pub@m0g.net>
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
See the LICENSE file for the full license.
♥