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Show HN: vcspull – synchronize your repos

21 points by git-pull 10y ago

justinsaccount 10y ago
see also mr: https://myrepos.branchable.com/ https://myrepos.branchable.com/
- mitchty 10y ago
  Yep, which also lets you define aliases as well so you can do even more. And its just a perl script, so its even easier to install/sync anywhere.
joelkevinjones 10y ago
None of your documents indicate exactly what this does. It looks like it is a way to pull from multiple version controls systems with a single command, as well as do queries of some type.
dom0 10y ago
Protip: If you have a live/animated demo/video as the first thing in your README, then you should really, really explain what happens and what is done. Here is an example (which is perhaps a bit too verbose/long): https://asciinema.org/a/28691?autoplay=1&speed=2 https://asciinema.org/a/28691?autoplay=1&speed=2
- YPCrumble 10y ago
  I would go further to say that a live animated demo is always worse than putting the output of the same demo in text that you can follow at the pace you choose. They are not flashy or interesting. They are an immediate turnoff, at least to me.
  - git-pull 10y ago
    It's the first I've heard of that. Interesting. I am going to consider moving the animated demo down.
  - kornish 10y ago
    Unless, of course, there are in-place animations or a curses-based UI.
- deleted 10y ago
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baq 10y ago
i'm not sure what this does, but i've been a happy user of https://github.com/msiemens/PyGitUp https://github.com/msiemens/PyGitUp for the last couple of years. from the looks of it it does less, but as we all know, in unix, less is more.
stewbrew 10y ago
That's a lot of text + code for a rather trivial task.
- sdsk8 10y ago
  I think this is a task for a very simple shell script.
danfromberlin 10y ago
It would be nice to have some discussion of how vcspull compares to mr (http://myrepos.branchable.com/ http://myrepos.branchable.com/)
git-pull 10y ago
Author here, I updated the project's README based on the feedback in this thread. Thanks for that. So a bit about the project and how I use it, indeed, it is similar to http://myrepos.branchable.com/ http://myrepos.branchable.com/. I use it to keep a list of repos I use across all my environments so I can: 1. clone projects without having to make directories and having to find the repo URL 2. update them without having to cd into them 3. having them available consistently throughout any machine I have at the same location

21 points by git-pull 10y ago

justinsaccount 10y ago

see also mr: https://myrepos.branchable.com/ https://myrepos.branchable.com/

mitchty 10y ago
Yep, which also lets you define aliases as well so you can do even more. And its just a perl script, so its even easier to install/sync anywhere.

joelkevinjones 10y ago

None of your documents indicate exactly what this does. It looks like it is a way to pull from multiple version controls systems with a single command, as well as do queries of some type.

dom0 10y ago

Protip: If you have a live/animated demo/video as the first thing in your README, then you should really, really explain what happens and what is done. Here is an example (which is perhaps a bit too verbose/long): https://asciinema.org/a/28691?autoplay=1&speed=2 https://asciinema.org/a/28691?autoplay=1&speed=2

YPCrumble 10y ago
I would go further to say that a live animated demo is always worse than putting the output of the same demo in text that you can follow at the pace you choose. They are not flashy or interesting. They are an immediate turnoff, at least to me.
- git-pull 10y ago
  It's the first I've heard of that. Interesting. I am going to consider moving the animated demo down.
- kornish 10y ago
  Unless, of course, there are in-place animations or a curses-based UI.
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baq 10y ago

i'm not sure what this does, but i've been a happy user of https://github.com/msiemens/PyGitUp https://github.com/msiemens/PyGitUp for the last couple of years. from the looks of it it does less, but as we all know, in unix, less is more.

stewbrew 10y ago

That's a lot of text + code for a rather trivial task.

sdsk8 10y ago
I think this is a task for a very simple shell script.

danfromberlin 10y ago

It would be nice to have some discussion of how vcspull compares to mr (http://myrepos.branchable.com/ http://myrepos.branchable.com/)

git-pull 10y ago

Author here, I updated the project's README based on the feedback in this thread. Thanks for that. So a bit about the project and how I use it, indeed, it is similar to http://myrepos.branchable.com/ http://myrepos.branchable.com/. I use it to keep a list of repos I use across all my environments so I can: 1. clone projects without having to make directories and having to find the repo URL 2. update them without having to cd into them 3. having them available consistently throughout any machine I have at the same location