a basic git repo clone script with pip/editable install support
MIT License
a basic git repo clone script, with special support for pip and/or editable installs, using reorder_editable
This supports running a preinstall (after cloning) or postinstall step (a shell command) as well
For examples of a clone-repos.yaml
file this expects at ~/.config/clone-repos.yaml
, see:
I also use this to install plugins/addons for things like ranger or todotxt:
Requires python3.9+
To install with pip, run:
pip install cl-repos
Usage: clone-repos [OPTIONS] CONFIG_FILE
Clones and sets up your repos.
Can provide a CONFIG_FILE instead of using the default
Options:
-b, --base-repos DIRECTORY base repository directory to clone repos into
[env var: REPOS; required]
-P, --parse-config test parsing the config file instead of running
clone
-B, --break-system-packages pass the --break-system-packages flag to pip
--help Show this message and exit.
The full format for a repo is:
"url to repository":
base: path # overwrite base-path for this repo
dirname: directory_name # directory name to clone into
symlink_to: directory_name # the parent directory to symlink the cloned repo to
pip: how # 'install', 'editable' or 'editable_system'
preinstall:
- "shell command 1"
- "shell command 2"
postinstall: "shell command here"
pipefail: false # if true, stops multiple preinstall/postinstall if any command fails
The preinstall
and postinstall
scripts can either be one command (a string), or multiple (a list)
For pip
, editable
by default uses the --user
flag, if you know what you're doing and want to install in your system lib directory, use editable_system
(Note that this only works in particular python installations. In a lot of cases, pip will still default to installing into your --user
directory instead). See reorder_editable for context.
This expects a $REPOS
environment variable to be set, which is the base directory to clone into, e.g. in your shell config set:
export REPOS="${HOME}/Repos"
... or you can provide the --base-repos
flag when running
To clone, run clone-repos
or python3 -m clone_repos
To run this quickly on new machines, I setup an alias in my dotfiles like:
alias cr="pip install cl-repos && clone-repos -B"
git clone 'https://github.com/seanbreckenridge/clone-repos'
cd ./clone-repos
pip install '.[testing]'
flake8 ./clone-repos
mypy ./clone-repos