Small utility tool to keep interesting code repositories up to date while also seeing what changed in them.
Whenever I notice that I have a local clone of some software project lying around, I wonder what new stuff has been introduced since the last time I looked at it. To answer that question I usually go into the repo, cleanup whatever local modifications I might have made, switch to their master/main branch, and just pull. Then I can diff the old and new HEAD and see all the exciting new stuff.
To automate the latter part of pulling the new stuff and viewing the diff, I decided to write a little helper tool. There are of course quite a few tools out there that keep a list of repositories synchronised, but getting them to let me view the changes how I wanted to didn't seem easily possible. Coupled with my desire to test out the textual TUI framework lead to me writing this.
Install muchstuff with the tool of your choice, e.g. pipx(u) install muchstuff, give it a ~/.config/muchstuff.toml looking like so:
[_DEFAULTS]
type = 'git'
[somerepo]
dest = '~/mywork/somerepo'
source = '[email protected]:mywork/somerepo'
[muchstuff]
dest = '/nas-storage/corerepos/muchstuff'
source = '[email protected]:yggdr/muchstuff'Now muchstuff will, upon starting, pull from all these repositories, and show up to 4 outputs per repo:
- The result of the pull, as in the output of e.g.
git pull - The diff for each file changed
- The commits it just pulled
- The commits it just pulled, with the changes per commit.
There are still a few issues that I haven't had the time or motivation to work out. Use at your own risk.
Mercurial was supported in an older, less powerfull version. I'm not sure when I will get around getting that up to speed again.