GitHub-Universe is a project mainly written in Python, based on the View license.
GitHub version of universe.make
GitHub Universe is a way to create a sort of meta repository out of your projects in GitHub using make.
Meta means that you step back from your own place. What you used to do is now what you see. What you were is now what you act on. Verbs turn to nouns. What you used to think of as a pattern is now treated as a thing to put in the slot of an other pattern. A meta foo is a foo in whose slots you can put foos.
- Guy L. Steele Jr., Growing a Language
Gnu Arch has a concept of meta project which allows you to checkout multiple repositories into your work directory.
We went a bit overboard with it when we started using Gnu Arch as our version control system at work. When we moved
to git we still had to work with several source code repositories. We built a git repository that only contained a
makefile that had rules to checkout all other repositories and called it Universe because it had every source code
repository our team worked with.
Because those rules contain lot of repetition, I decided to implement makefile macros to collect all common code together.
That way the rules are easier to maintain since changes need to be done only in single place. Thus, universe.make was born.
It uses GitHub APi through py-github Python library and small Python command-line utility to get a list of repositories
watched by a given user. Then it uses makefile macros to build universe.make projects out of that. The end result is a makefile
that can be used to check-out any project from GitHub that is watched by certain user. Since it uses the unauthorizing interface,
it doesn't require API token and it will only get list of repositories that are public information.
git clone git://github.com/jautero/GitHub-Universe.git github-watched
cd github-watched
make setup
make help