git-build.sh

Lightweight, KISS system to rebuild some git projects when they change.

Setup

Simply place git-build.sh in your path. If you don't know where to put it, the script .git-build/git-build will put it in ~/bin/ and add the folder to your $PATH in ~/.bashrc.

Usage

git-build.sh looks up your ~/.git-build/ folder to find stuff to build:

• config/ <-- additional settings/files for use in scripts
• PROJECT.source <-- URL to the git repo for PROJECT
• PROJECT.branch (optional) <-- branch to checkout
• PROJECT <-- script to execute when the project is updated
• PROJECT.log <-- STDOUT of PROJECT last run
• PROJECT.err <-- STDERR of PROJECT last run

Additionally, for each PROJECT a .PROJECT/ folder is created to clone the repository.

To clone/update your repo and start your build scripts, start the git-build.sh command.

Note: the PROJECT script needs to be executable!

Example

As an example on how to get started, this repo includes a .git-build/ folder. It's the configuration that generates this site and keeps git-build.sh updated.

Auto-update

Yes, you read that correctly. If you copy .git-build/git-build{,.source} to ~/.git-build/ git-build.sh will automatically be updated on each run.

You may not want to do that but i thought that was a nice proof of concept that the updater can update itself.

Auto-execute

You need CRON for that. Additionally, i'm interested to run this script through a webhook endpoint for Github/Gitlab/Gitea webhooks.

Contribute

Right now it seems to be working. If you find a bug please report it or open a merge request :)