git-project

With git-project, you can manage the projects to checkout even if these are all in the same git repository. It uses the new feature available in git v1.7: sparse-checkout.

It is based on 2 elements:

• a file format to define your different projects inside the git repository
• a tool to read the config files and simplify git sparse-checkout commands (git clone is no more efficient)

The goal is not replace git but simplify its management for multi-projects repository.

And for whose who don't think that one git repository for all project is good practise: google did it so why not someon else.

Install

# as a node module
npm install gitp

# as a cli
npm install -g gitp

Getting started

In order to use git-project, follow these steps:

On your repository:

1. create a .gitprc config file in the repository you can to checkout
2. define your project in the .gitprc file (see example)

As a CLI

Where you want to checkout only a sub part of the repository:

1. npm install -g git-project to install git-project on your computer
2. use command gitp init [<ref>] <url> to define the repository to pull
3. use command gitp config project <project1> <project2> to define the projects to pull
4. use command gitp pull <ref> <branch> and it will automatically pull what you want

Onyl this 3 commands exists, use standard git commands for other operations.

As a node module

var gitp = require('git-project')(<dirname>);

gitp.init(<url>, [<ref>,] callback);
gipt.configureProjects([<project1>, <project2>, ..], callback);
gitp.pull(<ref>, <branch>, callback);