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For working with many repos beyond pure status reporting there is Joey Hess's mr tool.

My only gripe is that configuration is manual and I wish there was an easy way fetch a set of repos from the well known forges into an mr config.

Oh, and I never figured out how to best work with it in a multi worktree per bare repo setup.

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AFAIK mr does not need much config, mostly just running `mr register` after `git clone`. When you do need to set config, the `mr config` command can help. All that said, I do have a lot of custom config :)

There is a `mr bootstrap` command for pulling a repo with a .mrconfig file in it, and then pulling a bunch of repos from there, here is an example usage:

https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/CheckOut

mr does have bare repo support, I haven't tried git multi-worktree stuff before though. I guess you would have to manually register each worktree.

I guess what I want is a tool (not necessarily mr) that I point to a GitHub/Bitbucket/Gitlab project and it creates/updates the .mrconfig with all repos from the project.

I guess I would generate mr config commands using the output of gh/glab repo list and run them in shell:

gh repo list --json url,name -q '.[] | "mr --config .mrconfig config " + .name + " " + .url' | sh

You could probably do it with xargs or similar too.

It might be worth including such a tool into mr itself, by wrapping the official CLI tools gh/glab/etc. You could access it via `mr bootstrap github:@foo` perhaps.

I wrote a wee helper to export all the repositories of your profile/organization into an MR configuration file:

https://github.com/skx/github2mr

But to be honest given the regular naming you might as well have a simple perl/ruby script to just read a list of names from STDIN and output the local directory-path, and remote.

Just for completeness, there's also mu-repo: https://fabioz.github.io/mu-repo/

We've being using it for years. Very simple to setup.

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