Introduction

mani is a CLI tool that helps you manage multiple repositories. It's useful when you are working with microservices, multi-project systems, many libraries or just a bunch of repositories and want a central place for pulling all repositories and running commands over them.

Features

• Clone multiple repositories in one command
• Declarative configuration
• Run custom or ad-hoc commands over multiple repositories
• Flexible filtering
• Customizable theme
• Portable, no dependencies
• Supports auto-completion

Example

You specify repository and commands in a config file:

mani.yaml

projects:
  pinto:
    url: https://github.com/alajmo/pinto.git
    desc: A vim theme editor
    tags: [frontend, node]

  template-generator:
    url: https://github.com/alajmo/template-generator.git
    desc: A simple bash script used to manage boilerplates
    tags: [cli, bash]
    env:
      branch: master

tasks:
  git-status:
    desc: show working tree status
    cmd: git status

  git-create:
    desc: create branch
    spec:
      output: text
    env:
      branch: main
    cmd: git checkout -b $branch

run mani sync to clone the repositories:

$ mani sync
✓ pinto
✓ dashgrid

All projects synced

and then run the commands over all or a subset of the repositories:

# Target repositories that have the tag 'node'
$ mani run git-status --tags node

┌──────────┬─────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Project  │ git-status                                      │
├──────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ pinto    │ On branch master                                │
│          │ Your branch is up to date with 'origin/master'. │
│          │                                                 │
│          │ nothing to commit, working tree clean           │
└──────────┴─────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

# Target project 'pinto'
$ mani run git-create --projects pinto branch=dev

[pinto] TASK [git-create: create branch] *******************

Switched to a new branch 'dev'