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Git-Bunch-0.25
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/ Git::Bunch

NAME

Git::Bunch - Manage gitbunch directory (directory which contain git repos)

VERSION

version 0.25

SYNOPSIS

To check the status of bunch (will do a 'git status' for each git repo inside the bunch and report which repos are 'unclean', e.g. needs commit, has untracked files, etc):

 % gitbunch check ~/repos

To synchronize bunch to another (will do a 'git pull/push' for each git repo, and do an rsync for everything else):

 % gitbunch sync ~/repos /mnt/laptop/repos

To backup bunch (will only rsync .git/ for each git repo to destination, and rsync everything else in full):

 % gitbunch backup ~/repos /media/flashdisk

DESCRIPTION

A gitbunch or bunch directory is just a term I coined to refer to a directory which contains, well, a bunch of git repositories. It can also contain other stuffs like files and non-git repositories (but they must be dot-dirs). Example:

 repos/            -> a gitbunch dir
   proj1/          -> a git repo
   proj2/          -> ditto
   perl-Git-Bunch/ -> ditto
   ...
   .foo/           -> a non-git dir
   README.txt      -> file

A little bit of history: after git got popular, in 2008 I started using it for software projects, replacing Subversion and Bazaar. Soon, I moved everything to git: notes & writings, Emacs .org agenda files, configuration, even temporary downloads/browser-saved HTML files. Currently, except large media files, all my personal data resides in git repositories. I put them all in ~/repos (and add symlinks to various places for convenience). This setup makes it easy to sync to laptops, backup to disk, etc. Git::Bunch is the library/script I wrote to do this.

See also File::RsyBak, which I wrote to backup everything else.

FUNCTIONS

None of the functions are exported by default, but they are exportable.

FAQ

TODO

  • Can't handle bare source repos

SEE ALSO

mr, http://joeyh.name/code/mr/ . You probably want to use this instead. mr supports other control version software aside from git, doesn't restrict you to put all your repos in one directory, supports more operations, and has been developed since 2007. Had I known about mr, I probably wouldn't have started Git::Bunch. On the other hand, Git::Bunch is simpler (I think), doesn't require any config file, and can copy/sync files/directories not under source control. I mainly use Git::Bunch to quickly: 1) check whether there are any of my repositories which have uncommitted changes; 2) synchronize (pull/push) to other locations. I put all my data in one big gitbunch directory; I find it simpler. Git::Bunch works for me and I use it daily.

FUNCTIONS

backup_bunch() -> [status, msg, result, meta]

No arguments.

Return value:

Returns an enveloped result (an array). First element (status) is an integer containing HTTP status code (200 means OK, 4xx caller error, 5xx function error). Second element (msg) is a string containing error message, or 'OK' if status is 200. Third element (result) is optional, the actual result. Fourth element (meta) is called result metadata and is optional, a hash that contains extra information.

check_bunch() -> [status, msg, result, meta]

No arguments.

Return value:

Returns an enveloped result (an array). First element (status) is an integer containing HTTP status code (200 means OK, 4xx caller error, 5xx function error). Second element (msg) is a string containing error message, or 'OK' if status is 200. Third element (result) is optional, the actual result. Fourth element (meta) is called result metadata and is optional, a hash that contains extra information.

exec_bunch() -> [status, msg, result, meta]

No arguments.

Return value:

Returns an enveloped result (an array). First element (status) is an integer containing HTTP status code (200 means OK, 4xx caller error, 5xx function error). Second element (msg) is a string containing error message, or 'OK' if status is 200. Third element (result) is optional, the actual result. Fourth element (meta) is called result metadata and is optional, a hash that contains extra information.

sync_bunch() -> [status, msg, result, meta]

No arguments.

Return value:

Returns an enveloped result (an array). First element (status) is an integer containing HTTP status code (200 means OK, 4xx caller error, 5xx function error). Second element (msg) is a string containing error message, or 'OK' if status is 200. Third element (result) is optional, the actual result. Fourth element (meta) is called result metadata and is optional, a hash that contains extra information.

AUTHOR

Steven Haryanto <stevenharyanto@gmail.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2012 by Steven Haryanto.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.