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+++ title = "git-build.sh: a low-tech tool to keep your builds updated" date = 2020-04-25 [taxonomies] skills = [ "git", "shell" ] +++
Do you find it hard to keep updated all your git projects and rebuild everything when updates are available? Well it may be easy for a handful project, but what do you do when there's a dozen of them?
Now, what do you do when there's dozens of them spanned across several servers? The answer is git-build.sh! It allows you to keep your projects updated, and automatically start some tasks when updates are available. In addition, per-host config is supported (based on $HOSTNAME) so you can share the same ~/.git-build/ configuration folder across machines.
What's really special about it, is that it is simple. Its interface is designed to be both meaningful to humans and machine-scriptable so you can integrate it with your favorite tools, yet still edit something manually when the need arises. Everything you need to know about git-build.sh fits in the README.md file.
There's probably plenty of other solutions developed by other people that fit this description, however i could not find any. If you know something, just mail me and i will place a mention in the project's README.md.
This blog is now fully deployed by git-build.sh. To publish an article, i just commit and push it to the repository, then run git-build.sh on thunix.net. In case something goes wrong, i have ~/.git-build/static-publish.{log,err} to answer my questions.
That's all there is to it. Don't hesitate to criticize/comment!