vcsh (with examples)
1: Initializing an (empty) repository
vcsh init repository_name
Motivation:
The vcsh init command allows you to create a new repository to manage your home directory using Git. This is useful if you want to version control your configuration files and easily share them across multiple machines.
Explanation: To initialize an (empty) repository, you need to provide a unique name for it. This name will be used as the directory name for the repository in the vcsh configuration.
Example Output:
Initialized empty vcsh repository in /home/user/.config/vcsh/repo.d/repository_name.git/
2: Cloning a repository into a custom directory name
vcsh clone git_url repository_name
Motivation:
The vcsh clone command allows you to clone an existing repository into a custom directory name. This is useful if you want to manage multiple repositories for different purposes within your home directory.
Explanation: To clone a repository, you need to provide the URL of the Git repository you want to clone and a custom name for the directory that will be created for the repository in the vcsh configuration.
Example Output:
Cloning into '/home/user/.config/vcsh/repo.d/repository_name.git'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 50, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (50/50), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (36/36), done.
remote: Total 50 (delta 12), reused 45 (delta 7), pack-reused 0
Receiving objects: 100% (50/50), done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (12/12), done.
3: Listing all managed repositories
vcsh list
Motivation:
The vcsh list command allows you to view a list of all the repositories managed by vcsh. This is useful if you want to see an overview of the repositories you have configured.
Explanation: This command does not require any arguments. It simply lists all the names of the managed repositories.
Example Output:
repository_name
4: Executing a Git command on a managed repository
vcsh repository_name git_command
Motivation:
The vcsh command allows you to execute arbitrary Git commands on a managed repository. This is useful if you need to perform specific Git operations on a repository.
Explanation: To execute a Git command, you need to provide the name of the repository and the desired Git command to run.
Example Output:
* 7e754a3 (HEAD -> master) Commit message
* 4a26913 Another commit message
...
5: Push/pull all managed repositories to/from remotes
vcsh push
vcsh pull
Motivation:
The vcsh push and vcsh pull commands allow you to push and pull changes from all managed repositories to/from their respective remotes. This is useful if you want to synchronize your local configuration changes with a remote repository.
Explanation:
The vcsh push command pushes any local changes to the remote repository for each managed repository. The vcsh pull command pulls any changes from the remote repository to the local copies of each managed repository.
Example Output:
Push:
repository_name: Everything up-to-date
Pull:
repository_name: Already up to date.
6: Writing a custom .gitignore file for a managed repository
vcsh write-gitignore repository_name
Motivation:
The vcsh write-gitignore command allows you to generate a custom .gitignore file for a managed repository. This is useful if you want to exclude certain files or directories from being tracked by Git.
Explanation:
To generate a custom .gitignore file, you need to provide the name of the repository. The command will then create a default .gitignore file in the repository’s directory. You can customize this file to specify the files and directories you want to ignore.
Example Output:
No output will be displayed, but a .gitignore file will be created in the repository’s directory.
