REPOCLI

Command Line Interface (CLI) meant to make it easier to work with multiple repositories

It is written in go (golang), so it should be able to run on all systems, but it is only tested on Ubuntu 20.04 and 22.04

Edit a YAML config file to describe your repositories.

Commands

• editor (alias e) - Open repo in the editor defined for that repo.
• getdir (alias d) - Get the root directory of a repo.
• tabtitle (alias t) - Get terminal tab title for a repo.
• config - Command to initialize or describe a configuration-file. Can also show you the path to the config.

After you build this cli run repocli help for all commands or repocli help <command> for help on a command

Build

If you do not have go installed you can follow go's install instructions to install it. It is quite simple.

Download this repo with git: git clone git@github.com:jimoe/repocli.git

run make build to build it the default directory (~/bin) or sudo make build /opt/repocli if you, for example, want to install it in the /opt directory

Make sure the 'install' directory is in you PATH, then verify by running repocli --version

Example config

editors:
  - name: goland
    params: nosplash <path>
  - name: code
    params: .
repoes:
  - name:    some-repo-name
    path:    /home/username/code/some-repo-name
    editor:  goland
    aliases:
      - some
      - some-repo
    terminal:
      title: SOME

It can also handle mono-repoes:

  - name:    a-monorepo-name
    path:    /home/username/code/a-monorepo-name
    editor:  code
    aliases:
      - amono
    terminal:
      title: AMONO
    monorepo:
      - subpath: packages/packagename
        terminal:
          title: A packagename
      - subpath: packages/whatever
        terminal:
          title: A whatever

After the cli is built you can see a full example by running repocli config example

Practical usage

repocli editor <repo-name/alias> works out of the box, but if you want to change directory or change terminal tab title this can only be done in the shell itself. I use bash, and here are som example usage you may put in your .bashrc

Bash aliases

handleRepocliOutput() {
  local output=$1
  if [[ $output == "/"* ]]; then
    cd $output
  elif [[ ! -z $output ]]; then # not empty output
    echo "$output"
  fi
}
# open repo in configered editor:
e() {
  local alias=$1
  repocli editor $alias
}
# change directory:
c() {
  local alias=$1
  local output=$(repocli getdir $alias)
  handleRepocliOutput "$output"
}
# open editor and change directory:
ec() {
  local alias=$1
  local output=$(repocli editor --returndir $alias)
  handleRepocliOutput "$output"
}
alias ce=ec

You may then run for example e somealias or c somealias given that somealias is the name or an alias of a repo in your config-file (or even if some-alias is the name of your repo)

Set terminal tab title in bash

setRepocliTabTitleList() {
  readarray -t tabTitleList < <(/home/jim/bin/repocli tabtitle)
}
setRepocliTabTitleList
getRepocliTabTitleFromList() {
  local pwd=$(pwd -P)
  local IFS=";" # splitChar
  local line
  for line in "${tabTitleList[@]}"; do
    local parts
    read -ra parts <<< "$line" # split string into array using $IFS as split-char
    local path=${parts[0]}
    local title=${parts[1]}
    if [[ "$pwd" == "$path" ]]; then
      echo "$title"
      break
    fi
  done
}
setTabTitle() {
  local title=$(getRepocliTabTitleFromList)
  if [ -z "$title" ]; then
    title=$(pwd|rev|cut -d "/" -f 1-2|rev)
  fi
  echo -en "\e]0;$title\a"
}
PROMPT_COMMAND=setTabTitle

This should not affect your PROMPT (PS1) and it will set the tab title every time the prompt is writen