Automated git-pull

Suppose you have 20 git-repositories, which you actively pull and push from/to central location (e.g. github). Don’t you think pulling them by hand is too mechanical? And what if you forget to pull some?

I wrote little gradle script capable of automated git-pull:

	buildscript {
	repositories { mavenCentral() }
	dependencies { classpath 'org.ajoberstar:gradle-git:0.5.0' }
	}
	import org.ajoberstar.gradle.git.tasks.*
	def onEachGitFolder(File folder, Closure closure) {
	File gitServiceFolder = new File(folder, ".git")
	if(gitServiceFolder.exists() && gitServiceFolder.isDirectory())
	closure(folder)
	else
	folder.eachDir { subFolder ->
	onEachGitFolder(subFolder, closure);
	}
	}
	task pull
	onEachGitFolder projectDir, { folder ->
	def taskName = folder.name + "_pull"
	project.task (taskName, type: GitPull) {
	setRepoPath folder.absolutePath
	}
	project.tasks.pull.dependsOn project.tasks[taskName]
	}
	defaultTasks "pull"

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git-pull.gradle

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Credits come to the creators of excellent gradle-git plugin:

https://github.com/ajoberstar/gradle-git

Script for mass checksum (MD5 and SHA1) calculation in the file system.

I developed little gradle script, that delivers mass checksum (MD5 and SHA1) calculation for files in the specified folder (recursive to subfolders):

https://github.com/akhikhl/checksums

At the beginning that was more like exercise in using gradle for non-compilation tasks and in integrating apache-commons into gradle script.

Now, I think, I will do more gradle than bash, because gradle scripts are: a) portable b) have access to limitless power of all java libraries.