Metarepo: An alternative to git submodules

Metarepo is used to manage dependencies on other git repositories when git submodules is not sufficient. It was inspired by the repo tool by Google but instead of requiring the manifest to be stored in its own repository, it is stored in the same repository.

Installation

# Install from PyPI
pip3 install --upgrade metarepo

# Install from git using PIP
pip3 install --upgrade git+https://github.com/blejdfist/git-metarepo

Usage

You can run metarepo in two ways, standalone or using git. Both methods work the same and it is only a matter of personal taste.

git meta
metarepo

Create an initial manifest.yml configuration using the init command

git meta init

Synchronize the repositories

git meta sync

Manifest structure

repos:
  - url: https://github.com/blejdfist/pycodegen
    path: tools/pycodegen
    track: master

Field	Explanation	Required
url	Git URL to clone	Yes
path	Where to clone the repo	Yes
track	What branch/tag to track	No (default: master)