gitdep

Dependency management between git repositories made easy

About

Git Dependencies is a tool that allows developers to establish and resolve dependencies between git projects, in the same way a package manager does in the system.

Quickstart

• Create a gd.txt file in the root directory of your project;
• Express dependencies in the format: REPO_URL RELATION HASH_OR_TAG;
• Where RELATION can be either ==, <= or >=;
• Resolve the dependencies calling gitdep clone_dir.

The last command will resolve the dependencies recursively until de the dependencies for all repositories are met.

To be easily integrated with existing tools and scripts, gitdep clone_dir will print a list of cloned repositories to stdout along with their versions.

Versioning with GIT

The relation between versions (hashes and tags) is extracted from the git's internal tree, so a hash A is older than B if it A is an ancestor of B. Because of that, gitdep can also detect version conflicts projects depend on hashes from different branches.

Multi-resolve

For testing, one may require additional dependencies, so gitdep also supports a list of dependency files in the same format as gd.txt, just call gitdep clone_dir project_dep_file test_dep_file and it will resolve the dependencies together.