git_status/clustergit ... mr
Hi there, I heard this is kind of a mailing list for mr. I hope this is correct. Anyways, for a long time I have been looking for tools to operate on a collection of (git) repositories and ideally return aggregate results. Until now I used search engines to find such tools, and only found googles repo and Mike Pearce's show_status. I have dubbed the latter clustergit and have been using it ever since. Today a friend told me about Joey Hess' mr, that seems to be able to do a lot of the things I need, but IMHO is comparatively difficult to set up and is not covered by many online tutorials -- which might in consequence lead to the low discoverability using search engines. So when comparing clustergit and mr, mr seems much more powerful, but two of the strong points from clustergit (and that's probably and exhaustive list of it's strong points) I could not find in mr: 1) very easy to set up and use (at least for my use case, and I have this habit of judging others by my own standards) 2) nice colored output, see attachment Concering 1) What do you think of adding an --all switch to mr so I can invoke it like this: mr --all status and it would operate on all directories in the current or specified directory? For simple setups (like mine) this is all that's ever needed and I can always switch to a .mrconfig later. It would make the learning curve less steep and you could create some nice examples in a tutorial to demonstrate (some of the) capabilities of mr. Best Regards, Michael PS: link to my version of clustergit https://github.com/mnagel/clustergit ___ vcs-home mailing list vcs-home@lists.madduck.net http://lists.madduck.net/listinfo/vcs-home
Re: git_status/clustergit ... mr
Michael Nagel wrote: I heard this is kind of a mailing list for mr. I hope this is correct. Anyways, for a long time I have been looking for tools to operate on a collection of (git) repositories and ideally return aggregate results. Until now I used search engines to find such tools, and only found googles repo and Mike Pearce's show_status. I have dubbed the latter clustergit and have been using it ever since. Today a friend told me about Joey Hess' mr, that seems to be able to do a lot of the things I need, but IMHO is comparatively difficult to set up and is not covered by many online tutorials -- which might in consequence lead to the low discoverability using search engines. The name probably doesn't help. I don't see how mr is particularly hard to set up; all it comes down to to add a repository is: git clone git://foo/bar cd bar mr register What do you think of adding an --all switch to mr so I can invoke it like this: mr --all status and it would operate on all directories in the current or specified directory? For simple setups (like mine) this is all that's ever needed and I can always switch to a .mrconfig later. It would make the learning curve less steep and you could create some nice examples in a tutorial to demonstrate (some of the) capabilities of mr. I think it would be more in tune with mr to have a way to go find checked out repositories and register them all. That way you would avoid the overhead of needing to search through possibly many subdirectories each time, and you would have the start of a mrconfig file, which is where most of the power of mr lies. (As you can use it to make mr check out the same things on another computer, or configure special commands to run in some repositories for things like mr update, etc.) -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ vcs-home mailing list vcs-home@lists.madduck.net http://lists.madduck.net/listinfo/vcs-home
