> On Aug 31, 2020, at 7:01 AM, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > My target use case here is: I want an easy way to work on all of Commons in > a new VM or a new machine, so I'd like to be able to check out all of > Commons in one go from any level for example here is an imaginary git > submodule tree: > - Apache Commons, a git repo with submodules: > - - Apache Commons Proper, a git repo with submodules: > - - - Apache Commons Lang > - - - etc > - - Apache Commons Sandbox, a git repo with submodules: > - - - etc > > Right now I am checking out each and every repo one at a time. Yes, we > could stash OS-specific scripts some place. > > I was hoping to start at the Apache Commons Proper level. If I need a > script to update each submodule to the latest HEAD, then this is less > elegant but understandable from a git POV. > > Maybe there is a git shorthand for this… >
I do this at work but we use BitBucket. It has the concept of projects and repos live under projects. So I wrote scripts that use the REST API to determine all the repos under and project and then use the git command to clone them all. Once you have them under a single directory it is easy to write a script to do git pull on all of them to keep them updated. IntelliJ also supports loading them all into a single window. I believe Git supports labels or something. I know that the ASF knows that each repo belongs to a specific project so I would be surprised if you couldn’t accomplish something similar to what I have done using that information. Ralph
