ghpm
What is this
ghpm is a utility that allows you to manage all your GitHub projects by allowing batch operations.
You can clone all of your or any other user’s repos at once.
You can use it to push, pull and do any other operation on all your projects at once.
Inspiration
I have a lot of repos on my GitHub and maintaining them was becoming a pain, also this makes moving my work to a new machine really smooth.
Prerequisites
Before you begin, ensure you have met the following requirements:
- You have installed the latest version of
bash - Cloning self repos needs authentication and relies on
gh, the GitHub cli
Getting ghpm
To install ghpm, follow these steps:
git clone https://github.com/2kabhishek/ghpm.git
cd ghpm
# Setup symlink make sure target directory is added to PATH
ln -sfnv $PWD/ghpm.sh ~/.local//bin/ghpm
Using ghpm
After symlinking, you can run ghpm in your GitHub repos parent directory, or you can pass it in as an argument
ghpm
# or
ghpm ~/Projects/GitHub
This will open up the self guided menu with a list of operations you can perform.
You can use option 3 to run any command in all your GitHub repos, very useful for push, pull and similar commands.
How it was built
ghpm was built using bash
Challenges faced
Figuring out the GitHub api and authentication was a challenge, I used gh to do some heavy lifting.
What I learned
- Best practices for
bashscripts - Bash functions and how it handles variables
- Used
awk,find,xargsand other useful tools.
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