Git multi clone

A shell that provides multiple repositories clone and sync.

Set clone.sh permission

Make clone.sh executable. I.e.: chmod 755 clone.sh.

Setup projects.json

Setup projects.json according to your needs.

[
  {
    "group": "cake",
    "destination": "/workspace/cake",
    "repositories": [
      "git@github.com:cakephp/app.git",
      "git@github.com:cakephp/bake.git",
      "git@github.com:cakephp/cakephp.git",
      "git@github.com:cakephp/migrations.git"
    ]
  },
  {
    "group": "docs",
    "destination": "/workspace/docs",
    "repositories": [
      "git@github.com:cakephp/docs.git"
    ]
  }
]

In the example above, we want to clone 4 repositories into /workspace/cake folder, 1 repository into /workspace/docs.

Dependencies

Install jq, if you don't have it already.

Usage

You can obtain info about usage by ./clone.sh help.

./clone.sh                      # clone all from projects.json
./clone.sh -g <group>           # clone repositories by group matching in projects.json
./clone.sh sync                 # fetch and pull projects
./clone.sh sync -g <group>      # fetch and pull repositories by group matching in projects.json
./clone.sh help                 # show usage

Multi clone

Launch it with ./clone.sh.

You can clone by group with '-g' argument. Using the example json above, if you want to clone just "docs" repositories:

./clone.sh -g docs

Multi sync (fetch and pull)

Launching ./clone.sh sync, the shell will do a git fetch -p and git pull in the repositories defined in projects.json.