mani

mani is a CLI tool that helps you manage multiple repositories. It's useful when you are working with microservices, multi-project systems, many libraries or just a bunch of repositories and want a central place for pulling all repositories and running commands over them.

You specify repository and commands in a config file and then run the commands over all or a subset of the repositories.

Interested in managing your servers in a similar way? Checkout sake!

Features

• Clone multiple repositories in one command
• Declarative configuration
• Run custom or ad-hoc commands over multiple repositories
• Flexible filtering
• Customizable theme
• Portable, no dependencies
• Supports auto-completion

Table of Contents

• Installation
  • Building From Source
• Usage
  • Create a New Mani Repository
  • Command Examples
  • Documentation
• License

Installation

mani is available on Linux and Mac, with partial support for Windows.

• Binaries are available on the release page

• via cURL (Linux & macOS)

  curl -sfL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/alajmo/mani/main/install.sh | sh
  

• via Homebrew

  brew tap alajmo/mani
  brew install mani
  

• via MacPorts

  sudo port install mani
  

• via Arch

  pacman -S mani
  

• via Nix

  nix-env -iA nixos.mani
  

• via Go

  go get -u github.com/alajmo/mani
  

Auto-completion is available via mani completion bash|zsh|fish|powershell and man page via mani gen.

Building From Source

1. Clone the repo
2. Build and run the executable

   make build && ./dist/mani
   

Usage

Create a New Mani Repository

Run the following command inside a directory containing your git repositories:

$ mani init

This will generate two files:

• mani.yaml: contains projects and custom tasks. Any sub-directory that has a .git inside it will be included (add the flag --auto-discovery=false to turn off this feature)
• .gitignore: includes the projects specified in mani.yaml file. To opt out, use mani init --vcs=none.

It can be helpful to initialize the mani repository as a git repository so that anyone can easily download the mani repository and run mani sync to clone all repositories and get the same project setup as you.

Run Some Commands

# List all projects
$ mani list projects

# Count number of files in each project in parallel
$ mani exec --all --output table --parallel 'find . -type f | wc -l'

Documentation

Checkout the following to learn more about mani:

• Examples
• Config
• Commands
• Changelog
• Roadmap
• Project Background
• Contributing

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2020-2021 Samir Alajmovic