Automating Building and Synchronising Local & Remote Git Repos With Github

I've blogged about some git configurations in the past. In particular working with remote git repos.

I have a particular workflow for most git repos

• I have a local repo on my laptop
• I have a remote git repo on my server
• I have a public repo on Github that functions as a back up.

When I push to my remote server, a post receive hook automatically pushes the updates to Github. Yay for automation.

However this wasn't enough automation, as I found myself creating git repos and running through the setup steps more often than I'd like. As a result I created gitweb_repo_build.sh which takes all the manual steps I go through to setup my workflow and automates it.

The script currently does the following:

• Builds a git repo locally
• Adds a README.mdwn and a LICENCE. Commits the changes.
• Builds a git repo hosted via your remote git server
• Adds to the remote server, a git hook for automatically pushing to github
• Adds to the remote server, a git remote for github.
• Creates a repo at GitHub a via API 3
• Pushes the READEME and LICENCE to the remote, which pushes to github.

It's currently written in bash and has no error handling.

I've planned a re-write in Haskell which will have error handling.

If this is of use to you, enjoy :-)