Git-cloud

Timeline and syncronization helpers to maintain a 'cloud' tree of git repos.

Setup

On both your ssh-accssible server, setup your repotree:

mkdir -p ~/Sync.repos
touch ~/Sync.repos/.git-cloud-remote-root

On your local machine do:

mkdir -p ~/Sync
touch ~/Sync/.git-cloud-root
mkdir -p ~/Tools
cd ~/Tools
git clone https://github.com/httk-system/git-cloud.git

Add ~/Tools/git-cloud/bin to your path, e.g., by inserting this line at the end of your ~/.bashrc:

export PATH=$PATH:$(find -L ~/Tools -type d -name "bin" -prune | tr "\n" ":")

If you do not want to set up a public ssh key for use with git-cloud, you can do so with:

git cloud key username@server

For repos that you only keep on your cloud server

For repos that you work with on, e.g., GitHub

(If you want to setup an empty repo, create it on, e.g., GitHub, first.)

Clone a bare copy of the repo you want to work with on your server:

ssh username@server git clone --bare git@github.com:example_user/example_repo ~/Sync/example_repo.git

Then, on your local system:

cd ~/Sync
git cloud clone git@github.com:example_user/example_repo username@server:Sync/example_repo.git

Usage

Now edit files as normal on your local system. To sync your working state (possibly via a cron job) of a repo, run:

git-cloud-commit ~/Sync/example_repo

To sync all repos under ~/Sync:

git-cloud-commit-all ~/Sync

This can, e.g., be placed in an hourly cron job.

Notes

Operation keeps another set of full copies of your repos inside ~/.git-cloud, which may be a waste of time. These complete copies are not actually necessary, but speed things up.