Git Automations Script for Linux Bash

Overview

This is a script for automating different git commands and processes, from creation of new local and remote repositories, adding remote repositories to local, adding, committing and pushing changes.

The script was originally created to work on a linux machine, but will be updated to work on other operating systems in the future.

Requirements/ Prerequisites

• Linux machine running on bash shell
• git version control installed locally
• GitHub repository token

How to set up git automations

• Setting up git automations requires you to have these files locally. To do so, you must clone this repository and follow these steps.
• After cloning the repository locally, you need to set up environmental variables to be used in the automation process, including git username, git email, and GitHub token.
• Using this requires that one must have a git token created for all repositories.

Setting variables and script to bash environment

Remember, you have to cd to this repository before performing the following actions

1. Add Git Username into your bash environment

echo 'export GIT_USERNAME=YOUR_GIT_USERNAME' >> ~/.bashrc

Here is an example:

echo 'export GIT_USERNAME=Charles123' >> ~/.bashrc

2. Add git email into your bash environment

echo 'export GIT_EMAIL=YOUR_GIT_EMAIL' >> ~/.bashrc

Here is an example:

echo 'export GIT_EMAIL=Charles123@gmail.com' >> ~/.bashrc

3. Add git token into your bash environment

echo 'export GITHUB_TOKEN=YOUR_GIT_GITHUB_TOKEN' >> ~/.bashrc

Here is an example:

echo 'export GITHUB_TOKEN=github_pat_1144JHSHsdffsdJDDSDSD_SDFSHFSJHDjhjjshhasdjhsLKASDKHJ' >> ~/.bashrc

Step 4: Running the script,

This command ./git-automations [OPTIONS] runs the script in the current directory.

To make it possible to run the script from any location in your local machine, you need to add the script folder to your environmental path by running the following command.

export PATH=$PATH:$(pwd)

5. Adding an alias rgit for running git-automations.

Up to this point, we have to run the script like this git-automations [OPTIONS] which makes it tiresome to retype the command.

However, to avoid having to type the full command, we can create an alias command that is short and easy to remember, and we will call it run-git

echo "alias rgit='git-automations'" >> ~/.bashrc

Using Git Automations

This script integrates three common options, which are passed as arguments into the command, and which are common in handling major tasks in git version control. The options include the following:

• create
• commit
• delete

Using rgit with [OPTIONS]

Let's say you want to create a new repository both locally and remotely, be able to commit and push changes, delete a repository.

You will need to run the command alias we have set for our script using one of the three options.

1. Creating a new repository.

To create a new repository, you will have to run the run-git command with the create option

rgit create

2. Updating changes to an existing repository.

There are many commands we usually use in git to update changes made to a repository, including git add ., git commit -m "Commit Message", and git push origin <branch>. Most of these commands are integrated into the update option of this script. All you have to do is use the rgit command with the commit option as follows.

rgit update

3. Deleting a Local and Remote Repository.

Deleting repos is rare, but you might find yourself having to delete one. NOTE: The delete option is still an issue, its still under development, so hang tight. Use the command alias with the delete option as follows:

rgit delete

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Authored by:

• Julius Charles