Documentation for gut

GiellaLT contains over 500 repositories. If you want to check out many (or all) of them, you may need a program to handle git operations over several repositories at the same time. For this we have made a tool called gut.

Download and install gut as instructed here.

Thereafter you need to configure gut:

gut init -r $HOME/langtech -o giellalt -u -t <YOUR-GITHUB-TOKEN>

where:

• -r $HOME/langtech specifies the root folder for gut - within it there will be one folder pr GibHub organisation (giellalt for https://github.com/giellalt), and within that folder all repositories from that organisation will reside;
• -o giellalt specifies the default GitHub organisation, so you don’t have to do it for every gut command
• -u specifies that you want to use https instead of ssh for every interaction with GitHub (if that is what you want)
• -t <YOUR-GITHUB-TOKEN> tells gut your GitHub access credentials - make sure you create a GitHub Personal Access Token with the proper rights. Replace <YOUR-GITHUB-TOKEN> with the actual token.

In order to use gut, have a look at the gut usage page.

The core functionality is a limited set of git commands, with the addition of a --regex option. Use the regex to write a pattern to match against repository names. Repository names matching the regex are the ones on which the git command will be applied.

Commonly used commands are:

• clone
• pull
• push
• commit (with implicit add, so be careful)

There are many more commands, see the help text for more info.