Feature request: command to add new repository

Currently when using this tool one has to edit the config file and then run the vcspull command (maybe with filter on the new repo name) to get the new checkout.

I would propose to add some sort of command where you can do something like vcspull add <repoUrl> which will then generate an entry similar to:

<folder>:
  <repoName>: '<repoUrl>'

in the existing config. <folder> would be the folder from which the call is executed Obviously if the <folder> already exist it should just add an entry to that block. The <repoName> should be extractable from the <repoUrl>, if not it needs to be passed in the call.

Once this config update was done vcspull should be able to run its normal “checkout/update” logic on that new entry to create it.

That way you can add a new entry in the vcspull config and get the checkout right away.

Any thoughts on this?

Best regards Segaja

[aschleifer]

@tony who knows, if you bring the current master codebase into the new structure (like moving the current “sync” code into its own file and proposing the structure and invocation) I might pick up the idea of this issue here and add the new command myself.

Working on the generator script in python got me enjoying python again, so if you don’t mind i could implement this “add” feature myself.

[tony]

That way we could have “sync” as the “normal sync”, maybe “import” or “scan” for your mentioned idea of scanning an existing folder structure and generating a config out of it. For the current example we could then do “add” for adding one new repo (as described in the description of this issue) and so on.

Noted

For code structure it could make sense to also split the code for these subcommands each into its own file. that way it is easier to maintain the code and “see” where what is happening.

Agreed

I like the idea of having a list of commands instead of starting with the principle that it will by default execute some magical command, and having that, I agree with you to add the vcspull sync

I agree with this sentiment. Next release will move the sync behavior to vcspull sync