xandkar / gg

git git: where my gits at? a cataloger of repos.

gg

git git

A tool to git all your gits and answer the age-old question: "Where my gits at?"

To discover, catalogue and compare repos across N machines.

problem!

• You may have several machines in use at any given time, with subsets of all repos sparsely scattered across.
• Same repo's replica directories may end-up named differently.
• You may end-up missing a local copy of an Internet-hosted replica.
• You may have orphaned local repos (with no remotes)
• You can end-up with any combination of the above scenarios!

solution?

So, how to be sure everything is in sync?

1. Find all the repos and confirm what is a fork of what (sharing an ancestor);
2. Compare their status to understand what is out of date;
3. Decide what should be pruned, moved, updated or whatever;
4. GOTO 1

gg is mainly motivated by 1, but also aims to be useful for 2.

See the example meta-repo.