gitremotes



#!/usr/bin/perl
# Parses list of remotes in doc/git.mdwn, configures git to use them
# all, and fetches updates from them.

my $error=0;

open (IN, "doc/git.mdwn") || die "doc/git.mdwn: $!";
while (<IN>) {
    if (/^\*\s+\[\[(\w+)\]\]\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");
            $error |= system("git", "remote", "add", "-f", $remote, $url);
        }
        else {
            $error |= system("git", "fetch", $remote);
        }
    }
}
close IN;

exit $error;