gitremotes



#!/usr/bin/perl
# Parses list of remotes in doc/git.mdwn, configures git to use them
# all. After running this, use "git remote update --prune" to pull
# updates from all remotes.

open (IN, "doc/git.mdwn") || die "doc/git.mdwn: $!";
while (<IN>) {
    if (/^\*\s+\[?\[?(\w+)(?:\|\w+)?\]?\]?\s+`([^>]+)`/) {
        # note that the remote name has to be a simple word (\w)
        # for security/sanity reasons
        my $remote=$1;
        my $url=$2;

        # check configured url to deal with it changing
        my $info=`git remote show -n $remote`;
        my ($oldurl)=$info=~/URL: (.*)/m;
        if ($oldurl ne $url) {
            system("git remote rm $remote 2>/dev/null");
            system("git", "remote", "add", $remote, $url);
            system("git", "config", "remote.$remote.tagopt",
                "--no-tags");
            system("git", "fetch", $remote);
        }
    }
}
close IN;