Handle multiple repos from command line

Motivation

github desktop has from my point of view the following drawbacks

sometimes my collegues think they synched, but didn’t..
aparently it doesn’t support the same repo being checked out multiple times to different locations (=> different eclipse workspaces)

Therefore I recommend to install the “real” git and use it together with myrepos.

Installing myreps

I’m working on a windows machine where I installed perl in order to be able to run myrepos.
I’m running myrepos from within the git bash shell that came together with git for windows.
- I have individual .mrconfig files for different workspaces and was (on my windows system) unable to register them as trusted. Hence the -t

.mrconfig file

Here is how my .mrconfig looks like (without a few private repos ^^):

[DEFAULT]
# make `mr zap` integrate from upstream
zap =
    git pull
    git merge origin/master

# thx to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1417957/show-just-the-current-branch-in-git
branch =
	git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD

[/c/workspaces/mf/metasfresh-parent]
checkout = git clone 'git@github.com:metasfresh/metasfresh-parent.git' 'metasfresh-parent'

[/c/workspaces/mf/metasfresh-admin]
checkout = git clone 'git@github.com:metasfresh/metasfresh-admin.git' 'metasfresh-admin'

[/c/workspaces/mf/metasfresh]
checkout = git clone 'git@github.com:metasfresh/metasfresh.git' 'metasfresh'

[/c/workspaces/mf/metasfresh-webui-api]
checkout = git clone 'git@github.com:metasfresh/metasfresh-webui-api.git' 'metasfresh-webui-api'

[/c/workspaces/mf/metasfresh-webui-frontend]
checkout = git clone 'git@github.com:metasfresh/metasfresh-webui-frontend.git' 'metasfresh-webui-frontend'

[/c/workspaces/mf/metasfresh-procurement-webui]
checkout = git clone 'git@github.com:metasfresh/metasfresh-procurement-webui.git' 'metasfresh-procurement-webui'

[/c/workspaces/mf/metasfresh-dist]
checkout = git clone 'git@github.com:metasfresh/metasfresh-dist.git' 'metasfresh-dist'

[/c/workspaces/mf_vanilla/metasfresh-release-info]
checkout = git clone 'git@github.com:metasfresh/metasfresh-release-info.git' 'metasfresh-release-info'

Avoiding the “mr -t run” prefix

Since I (almost) always work with myrepos within the git bash shell, I’m experimenting with the following aliases:

# custom aliases; zap and branch are defined in the .mrconfig file
alias mrgit='mr -t run git'
alias mrpush='mr -t run git push'
alias mrpull='mr -t run git pull'
alias mrbranch='mr -t branch'
alias mrzap='mr -t zap'

If you use git on windows like me, you can create a .bashrc file in your home directory (usually C:\users\<yourlogin> on windows) and add those aliases to it (thanks to this stackoverflow answer).

View source file on GitHub.com