Diroctor is a node.js command line tool that looks after the most precious thing a software developer has the source code!
Given a path to the root folder where source code is kept it will create a .diroctor.lock file with all git repositories and folder tree. Keep this file backed up on Dropbox or Google Drive and use it to fully restore all your repositories with one convenient command.
This is extremely valuable in case of a hardware failure or a quick way to set up your development environment on a new machine.
The most convenient way to use diroctor is to install it as a global npm module.
npm i diroctor -g
yarn global add diroctor
Diroctor has some sensible defaults with the possibility to override them using CLI arguments.
Default source and restore path is code.
Default .diroctor.lock file is generated in HOME path
All paths in diroctor are relative to HOME environment variable. So code points to ~/code on the filesystem.
Running diroctor in the command with no arguments line will look for a ~/codefolder, go through all of the folders recursively until it finds a git repository, save that and create a ~/.diroctor.lock file.
Running diroctor -r or diroctor --restore will read the .diroctor.lock file and restore the folder structure and check out all git repositories in the same place and with same folder name as before.
Options:
| Option | Details |
|---|---|
| -v, --version | output the version number |
| -r, --restore | Re-install repository directory tree. To specify a path use -s |
| -d, --diroctor-lock | Location of the diroctor.lock file relative to the HOME directory |
| -s, --source | Path to the root of git repositories relative to the HOME directory |
| -h, --help | output usage information |
diroctor -s projects
Will look for ~/projects folder and traverse to create the .diroctor.lock file
diroctor -r -s myCode
Will read .diroctor.lock file and restore the repository folder structure to ~/myCode folder.
Having to re-install all projects every time I re-install OS or change a machine is a pain. This little utility makes it easy to restore a complete project structure in case of a machine failure or even use it to share a complex project structure with several people in the team, e.g. set up multiple git repositories using only one command.
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