Futon

Restore/wrap up your repositories and workspaces like a futon.

Restore only repositories/workspaces you need to work on. Safely delete or wrap up anything else.

• Puppet is for servers, not developers (it clobbers repositories or needs complex custom modules)
• [Repo] (https://source.android.com/source/using-repo.html) is for related repositories and extending it is troublesome
• myrepos is close (!), except it emphasises push/pull on multiple repositories, while futon is more about backup/restore/"safely-implode"
• git-sweep only cleans up a repo, no backup, no restore, no switching between sets of projects
• dotfiles managers - mostly only for retrieving and updating, not many storage options
• custom shell scripts - we all know what happens with them...

$ gem install futon

Create a ~/.futon/default.yml with a configuration like this:

---
:workspaces:
  myproject1:
    :directory: '/home/user/workspace/myproject1'
    :source:
      type: :git
      :url: "https://example.org/myproject.git"

And run futon to restore those defined projects.

• Restore git workspace from global ~/.futon/default.yml
• Project ready for heavy development (RSpec tests, Guard, RuboCop, Docker acceptance test)
• Initial gem release
• Per-project settings
• Alternative config file on command line
• "Unrestore" repo (safely remove if full backup is available)
• Tagging and switching whole sets on/off
• smart "out of sight" git repo cache for fast checkouts/updates
• Support S3 providers (with IAM auth)
• Support for tarball/gpg/ssh/rsync providers
• "Fetch" command on specified sets of repos
• Support mixed backup when files are modified, stashed or in local branches

These will likely be added soon, though PRs and issues reports are welcome if you can't wait!

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests. For TDD/BDD workflow, run bin/guard. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/[USERNAME]/futon.

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.