git-trees

Description

git-trees is a Git port of the Mercurial extension trees. git-trees helps manage a set of loosely couple Git repositories in a uniform way - commands can in a convenient way be run in multiple nested Git repositories. git-trees will automatically discover any nested Git repositories upon first use, there is no need to configure anything. If eventual nested repositories changes then a user must run git trees treconfigure in order for git-trees to pick up the new hierarchy.

Usage

$ git trees -h
usage: git-trees [options] <COMMAND> [<ARGS>]
	<COMMAND>		  A git/hg command to run once for each repo, or
	treconfigure	to pick up changes in the tree hierarchy
	-m, --mercurial	Deprecated: force use of mercurial
	-h, --help     	Show this help text
	    --version  	Print the version of this tool

Examples

Running the command status --short in the top-level repository and a nested repository:

$ git trees status --short
[/home/user/git/top-level]
M README.md

[/home/user/git/top-level/nested]
M CONTRIBUTING.md

Configuration

It is common to alias existing command prefixed with "t" for running the equivalent command in the top-level repository and all nested repositories. The following sets up the alias tstatus for the command trees status:

$ git config --global alias.tstatus 'trees status'

Skara's gitconfig file comes with a number of aliases defined for the most common Git commands.

Source

See GitTrees.java.