Anyway, there's lots more repositories and not all of them are required on all of my machines. While i'm working on a machine i'll make changes in oneor many repositories, so before I shut that machine down i need to git add, git commit and git push.

How This Script Helps

In my .bash_profile script i set the environment variable REPO_CFG to point to my repo.yaml file (which is in my cfg repository by the way). I also add this jdownie/repo folder to my PATH. There is an example of a repo.yaml in this folder. For each repository, there's a code, a url and a local path to clone the repository into. There's also a list of hostnames that the repository is wanted on (which can be an empty list if the repository is wanted on all hosts; like bin and cfg for example).

With all of that in place, i can run the following commands across all of my repositories...

repo status, list each repo with a count of "dirty" files against each
repo lc, stage and commit all files in each repo with a generic comment
repo fetch, repo pull and repo push
repo sync, pulls and pushes all repositories

This script makes it easy for me to run repo lc and repo sync before i shut a machine down. On my next machine I can run repo sync to get my changes on the new machine.

If I want to remove a repo from a host. I can remove the hostname from that repositorie's hosts list. Then i run repo prune which does a lc, a sync and then removes the cloned folder.

Alternatively, i might move a repository. I change the url in repo.yaml, and then run repo align to update that repository's remote url.