toomani

The amount of repositories we have to manage is too damn high! Pulling all repositories from a specific group in your workspace can be tedious.
Mani is an excellent tool for pulling and managing multiple repositories. However, setting up the initial configuration file for Mani can be time-consuming.

This is where toomani helps.
It generates an initial Mani configuration file, or optionally a shell script, for a specific group on your GitLab server.

Usage

Run the following command:

export GITLAB_HOST="<your self-hosted GitLab instance, if applicable>"
export GITLAB_TOKEN="<your GitLab personal access token>"

go run github.com/alex0ptr/toomani@latest gitlab --group gitlab-org/architecture -o mani > mani.yml

This will generate a Mani configuration file for the gitlab-org/architecture group:

projects:
    design-doc:
        url: git@gitlab.com:gitlab-org/architecture/autoflow/design-doc.git
        path: autoflow/design-doc
    design-docs:
        url: git@gitlab.com:gitlab-org/architecture/design-docs.git
        path: design-docs
    staff-plus-engineer-role-questions:
        url: git@gitlab.com:gitlab-org/architecture/staff-plus-engineer-role-questions.git
        path: staff-plus-engineer-role-questions
tasks:
    fetch-all:
        cmd: git fetch --all
        description: Fetch all remotes.
    pre-commit:
        cmd: pre-commit install --allow-missing-config
        description: Install pre-commit hooks.
    pull-main:
        cmd: git switch main && git pull
        description: Switch to main and pull.

You can now run:

mani sync
mani run --all "<task>"

Note that you also have the option to filter which repositories you want to include in the mani configuration file. Use go run github.com/alex0ptr/toomani@latest gitlab -h to discover options.