git-aggregator

Manage the aggregation of git branches from different remotes to build a consolidated one.

Configuration file

Create a repos.yaml or repos.yml file:

./product_attribute:
    remotes:
        oca: https://github.com/OCA/product-attribute.git
        acsone: git+ssh://[email protected]/acsone/product-attribute.git
    merges:
        - oca 8.0
        - oca refs/pull/105/head
        - oca refs/pull/106/head
    target: acsone aggregated_branch_name

./connector-interfaces:
    remotes:
        oca:  https://github.com/OCA/connector-interfaces.git
        acsone:  https://github.com/acsone/connector-interfaces.git
    merges:
        - oca 6054de2c4e669f85cec380da90d746061967dc83
        - acsone 8.0-connector_flow
        - acsone 80_connector_flow_ir_cron_able-lmi
        - acsone 8.0_connector_flow_improve_eval_config
    target: acsone aggregated_branch_name
    fetch_all:
        - oca

Environment variables inside of this file will be expanded if the proper option is selected.

Fetching only required branches

If any of your merges refer to a specific commit, you will probably need to fetch all remotes from the corresponding remote or use any other strategy to get that fetch working, but we recommend to simply add this like in the example above:

fetch_all:
    - oca
    - other-remote

You can specify that you want to fetch all references from all remotes you have defined with:

fetch_all: true

Shallow repositories

To save big amounts of bandwidth and disk space, you can use shallow clones. These download only a restricted amount of commits depending on some criteria. Available options are depth, shallow-since and shallow-exclude.

Warning

Available options depend on server and client Git version, be sure to use options available for your environment.

You can use those in the defaults sections to apply them everywhere, or specifying them in the corresponding merges section, for which you must use the dict alternate construction. If you need to disable a default in merges, set it to false:

./odoo:
    defaults:
        depth: 20
    remotes:
        odoo: https://github.com/odoo/odoo.git
        ocb: https://github.com/OCA/OCB.git
        acsone: https://github.com/acsone/odoo.git
    merges:
        -
            remote: ocb
            ref: "9.0"
            depth: 1000
        -
            remote: odoo
            ref: refs/pull/14859/head
    target: acsone 9.0

Remember that you need to fetch at least the common ancestor of all merges for it to succeed.

Triggers

It's also possible to specify a command or a list of shell commands to execute after the aggregation (and before the push). The commands are executed into the aggregated directory.

./product_attribute:
    remotes:
    oca: https://github.com/OCA/product-attribute.git
    acsone: git+ssh://[email protected]/acsone/product-attribute.git
    merges:
        - oca 8.0
    target: acsone aggregated_branch_name
    shell_command_after: echo 'my command'

./connector-interfaces:
    remotes:
    oca:  https://github.com/OCA/connector-interfaces.git
    acsone:  https://github.com/acsone/connector-interfaces.git
    merges:
        - oca 9.0
    target: acsone aggregated_branch_name
    shell_command_after:
        - echo 'a first command'
        - echo 'a second command'

A real life example: applying a patch

./odoo:
    remotes:
    oca: https://github.com/OCA/OCB.git
    acsone: [email protected]/acsone/OCB.git
    merges:
        - oca 9.0
    target: acsone aggregated_branch_name
    shell_command_after:
        - git am "$(git format-patch -1 XXXXXX -o ../patches)"

Command line Usage

Following the example repos.yaml file from above, aggregate your repositories at any time:

$ gitaggregate -c repos.yaml

Expand environment variables inside of the configuration file when loading:

$ gitaggregate -c repos.yaml --expand-env

You can also aggregate and automatically push the result to the target:

$ gitaggregate -c repos.yaml -p

Only aggregate a specific repository using fnmatch:

$ gitaggregate -c repos.yaml -p -d connector-interfaces

Show closed github pull requests

gitaggregate has a mechanism to identify merges that correpond to merged or closed Github pull requests.

Such merges are of the form refs/pull/NNN/head where NNN is the pull request number, with a https://github.com or [email protected] remote.

To work around API limitation, you must first generate a Github API token.

$ export GITHUB_TOKEN=...
$ gitaggregate -c repos.yaml show-closed-prs

Changes

1.2.0 (May, 17, 2017)

• support .yml config file extension
• add a show-closed-prs command to display github pull requests that are not open anymore; github pull requests must be referenced as refs/pull/NNN/head in the merges section

1.1.0 (Feb, 01, 2017)

• Use setuptools_scm for the release process (acsone#10)
• Expand env vars in config. (acsone#8)
• Shallow repositories. (acsone#7)
• Fetch only required remotes. (acsone#6)
• Display readable error if config file not found. (acsone#2)

1.0.0 (Jan, 19, 2016)

• First release

Credits

Author

• Laurent Mignon (ACSONE)

Contributors

• Cyril Gaudin (camptocamp)
• Jairo Llopis (Tecnativa)
• Stéphane Bidoul (ACSONE)
• Dave Lasley (LasLabs)

Maintainer

This project is maintained by ACSONE SA/NV.