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Git ​

  • Lazygit - Terminal UI for common git commands, personally my favorite tool.
  • github/gitignore - Useful .gitignore files for your projects
  • gitoxide - Fast and lean reimplementation of git in rust.
  • git-flow
  • pre-commit - Manage git hooks for your projects, written in Python and has support for various languages.
  • Lucky Commit - Customize your git commit hashes
  • git-annex - Track large files in your git repository.
  • git-secret - Store secrets and private data with PGP encryption.
  • git-branchless - Suite of tools for high-velocity, monorepo-scale workflow.
  • git-chglog - Generate changelogs from commit messages.
  • git-sweep - Clean up branches that have been merged into stable.
  • git-mask - Anonymously contribute to projects, is a hosted service.
  • git-stack - Stacked branch management.

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Bidirectional syncing of repository ​

This is a guide on how to setup a bidirectional git mirror for a repository. This is also how this wiki is synced.

Say we have a repository on GitHub, now it needs to be mirrored to Gitea/GitLab/SourceHut or the other way around, that's bidirectional syncing.

This comes with it's own caveats though.

We change into a directory and clone the bare repository:

bash
# ~/projects/sync
git clone --bare https://github.com/taskylizard/bonsai
mv bonsai.git bonsai
cd bonsai

Now we use this cloned bare directory for our syncing, we remove the origin remote and configure our upstream repository instead:

bash
git remote remove origin
# These can be SSH remotes too
git remote add github https://github.com/taskylizard/bonsai.git
git remote add gitea https://git.bignutty.xyz/taskylizard/bonsai.git

Now the actual syncing happens here:

bash
#!/bin/bash

cd /home/tasky/projects/sync/bonsai
# Fetch all the remotes
git fetch --all -p
# And sync them.
git push github "refs/remotes/gitea/*:refs/heads/*" "refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*"
git push gitea "refs/remotes/github/*:refs/heads/*" "refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*"
echo "Synced successfully."

Now save and run this, setup a crontab to run every hour or a webhook thing (here be dragons!), whatever fits your boat.