ikiwiki/gitremotes

#!/usr/bin/perl
# Parses list of remotes in doc/git.mdwn, configures git to use them
# all. After running this, use "git remote update --prune" to pull
# updates from all remotes.

open (IN, "doc/git.mdwn") || die "doc/git.mdwn: $!";
while (<IN>) {
	if (/^\*\s+\[?\[?(\w+)(?:\|\w+)?\]?\]?\s+`([^>]+)`/) {
		# note that the remote name has to be a simple word (\w)
		# for security/sanity reasons
		my $remote=$1;
		my $url=$2;

		# check configured url to deal with it changing
		my $info=`git remote show -n $remote`;
		my ($oldurl)=$info=~/URL: (.*)/m;
		if ($oldurl ne $url) {
			system("git remote rm $remote 2>/dev/null");
			system("git", "remote", "add", "-f", $remote, $url)
		}
	}
}
close IN;