Added a comment: I'm not so sure that copying metadata is desirable
[ikiwiki] / gitremotes
1 #!/usr/bin/perl
2 # Parses list of remotes in doc/git.mdwn, configures git to use them
3 # all. After running this, use "git remote update --prune" to pull
4 # updates from all remotes.
5
6 open (IN, "doc/git.mdwn") || die "doc/git.mdwn: $!";
7 while (<IN>) {
8         if (/^\*\s+\[?\[?(\w+)(?:\|\w+)?\]?\]?\s+`([^>]+)`/) {
9                 # note that the remote name has to be a simple word (\w)
10                 # for security/sanity reasons
11                 my $remote=$1;
12                 my $url=$2;
13
14                 # check configured url to deal with it changing
15                 my $info=`git remote show -n $remote`;
16                 my ($oldurl)=$info=~/URL: (.*)/m;
17                 if ($oldurl ne $url) {
18                         system("git remote rm $remote 2>/dev/null");
19                         system("git", "remote", "add", $remote, $url);
20                         system("git", "config", "remote.$remote.tagopt",
21                                 "--no-tags");
22                         system("git", "fetch", $remote);
23                 }
24         }
25 }
26 close IN;