Re: [ANNOUNCE] metagit 0.1.2

Thomas Koch <thomas@koch.ro> writes:

I didn't know mr, when i started hacking metagit (which was based on an Idea mit mschilli in the German Linux Magazin). My focus was always, that i can run the same config on all of my machines, because I tend to have all my documents in single git repos (e.g. every course at university is a git repo).

To make this happen, i needed to define some modules that list me all my repositories on the server where my university stuff is. But i didn't want to see my uni stuff at work, so i needed policies where the repos should come up. As i see these features aren't implemented directly in mr.

For my work, where svn with svn:externals is used, I implemented the svn:externals support, where all the externals are cloned recursivly. (You can even define if a given command is executed on the externals or not). This is also a feature mr doesn't have.

And there is the simple, but useful metagit cd, which echos a cd command to a repository path. So with the bash function

mm () {
        $(metagit cd $@)
}

I can simply jump to the metagit repo with `mm meta', where ever it was put.

On the other hand metagit doesn't implement recording of actions if you're offline. And of course the most important point that metagit is worse than mr is, as already mentioned, that it is written in python and not in perl.

greetz didi