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jeftadlvw / git-nest

Nest external repositories into your project without git being bothered.
https://github.com/jeftadlvw/git-nest
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✨ subcommand for automatic updates #18

Open jeftadlvw opened 1 month ago

jeftadlvw commented 1 month ago

As soon as some sort of an automatic build system is ready and operational, it would be greate if git-nest would utilize it and update itself if the user allows it.

The suggested subcommand would be

git-nest update

Though, maybe this subcommand could be confused with sync, so

git-nest version --update

would be a viable option too.

Because git-nest is just a single executable, it could easily be downloaded, verified and replaced.

This issue requires #17, or some form of consistent binary provisioning for each new release.

jeftadlvw commented 1 month ago

First version of an autoupdater would just look if a new release and binary exists for the local os and architecture, then download and replace the executable.

Next steps could enclude some form of automatic building: