Git CommitSync

Automatically sync your commits to a repository, with branch and host tracking.

This is primarily intended to streamline working on multiple computers - for example, short-lived EC2 nodes, or a Windows computer and a MacOS. It can also be useful as part of a backup solution.

Installation

1. Install Rust
2. Cargo build

Usage

1. Create a repository to sync to; while it's possible to sync to your main repository, this isn't usually a good idea: CommitCloud will create a lot of branches, which are largely noise - and they'll automatically be public. It's usually best to create a private repository somewhere.
2. Configure passwordless access to this repository - for example, via ssh-agent.
3. Run /path/to/commitsync init (or commitsync.exe) to setup the repo
4. Run git cs to view synced commits
5. run git config --global commitsync.format=oneline for more consise output.

Example

With colors:

Or, plain text:

fred@Freds-MBP testrepo % git cs 
* a8e0545594f2d550079baba46fb0bb914625cf6d 
| Branch: fred@Freds-WindowsPC/bar 
| Author: Fred Emmott <fred@fredemmott.com> 
| Date:   Thu, 25 Jun 2020 17:55:48 -0700 
|  
| first commit on bar from windows PC 
|  
* 2b32bc54ae58f905b491b2372f81a8a4bdab30f7 
| Branch: fred@Freds-MBP/bar 
| Author: Fred Emmott <fred@fredemmott.com> 
| Date:   Wed, 24 Jun 2020 19:03:48 -0700 
|  
| initial commit on bar, from foo^ 
|  
| * a9b49f93905a9fb68495f307b1c6232078f1e24f 
| | Branch: fred@Freds-WindowsPC/foo 
| | Author: Fred Emmott <fred@fredemmott.com> 
| | Date:   Thu, 25 Jun 2020 17:55:02 -0700 
| |  
| | first commit on foo from windows PC 
| |  
| * 3962ac33a846bd9803827fbf71ab6af2434822bd 
|/  Branch: fred@Freds-MBP/foo 
|   Author: Fred Emmott <fred@fredemmott.com> 
|   Date:   Wed, 24 Jun 2020 19:03:29 -0700 
|    
|   second commit on foo 
|    
* fd55ffd0ca58ae08fb9be813b381e7e39e0d933d 
  Author: Fred Emmott <fred@fredemmott.com> 
  Date:   Wed, 24 Jun 2020 19:03:23 -0700 
   
  initial commit on foo 
fred@Freds-MBP testrepo % git cs --format=oneline 
* (fred@Freds-WindowsPC/bar) a8e0545 first commit on bar from windows PC 
|  
* (fred@Freds-MBP/bar) 2b32bc5 initial commit on bar, from foo^ 
|  
| * (fred@Freds-WindowsPC/foo) a9b49f9 first commit on foo from windows PC 
| |  
| * (fred@Freds-MBP/foo) 3962ac3 second commit on foo 
|/   
|    
* fd55ffd initial commit on foo 
fred@Freds-MBP testrepo % git checkout -b foo-from-win a9b49f9 
Switched to a new branch 'foo-from-win' 
fred@Freds-MBP testrepo % git log -1 
commit a9b49f93905a9fb68495f307b1c6232078f1e24f (HEAD -> foo-from-win)
Author: Fred Emmott <fred@fredemmott.com> 
Date:   Thu Jun 25 17:55:02 2020 -0700 
 
    first commit on foo from windows PC 
fred@Freds-MBP testrepo %

Inspiration

This project is inspired by 'CommitCloud', part of the Eden project.

License

This code is distributed under the terms of the ISC License.