gitup

A minimalist FreeBSD program to clone/pull Git repositories.

Intended for non-developers, gitup(1) synchronizes local repositories – without the complexities of the official Git client, git(1).

Requirements and compatibility

Minimalism:

• no dependencies
• gitup does not use special files, such as the object database, that may be found in a .git subdirectory.

For integrity of data and metadata:

• if a working directory includes a .git subdirectory, a gitup command will not proceed
• if a working directory is non-empty and lacks a .git subdirectory, git will not proceed.

Scope

gitup was originally designed to work with /usr/ports and /usr/src directories – for the ports and src source code trees of the FreeBSD Project.

Other working directories, not necessarily related to FreeBSD, may be configured as described in gitup.conf(5).