Managing Remote Repositories

Managing remote repositories with RRPM

Cloning Remote Repositories

Remote Git repositories such as those hosted on GitHub or GitLab can be cloned by using the rrpm get command as shown below.

Universal

$ python -m rrpm get github.com/pybash1/rrpm # notice that the https:// and .git are optional.
Fetching GitHub Repository
Successfully cloned repository in github.com/pybash1/rrpm

The above command clones the pybash1/rrpm repository to the directory %USERPROFILE%\Projects on Windows and ~/Projects on Unix by default. this can be changed in the config.toml file.

The config.toml file

Usage

Usage: python -m rrpm get [OPTIONS] URL

  Clone a remote repository to directory specified in config

Arguments:
  URL  [required]

Options:
  --help  Show this message and exit.

Listing Cloned Repositories

The rrpm list command can be used to display a tree of the of the projects cloned to the root directory as shown below

Universal

$ python -m rrpm list
C:\Users\mitra\Projects
  |- github.com
      |- CutCode-org
          |- CutCode-svelte
      |- github
          |- gitignore
      |- pastegram
          |- backend
      |- pybash1
          |- pm
          |- portfolio
          |- pybash1
          |- rrpm

The root directory is as per the config.toml file.

Usage

Usage: python -m rrpm list [OPTIONS]

  List all cloned repositories and generated projects

Options:
  --help  Show this message and exit.