gitsie

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Overview

gitsie is a package manager for projets hosted on GitHub. It's covinient to use, and works similar to package managers like apt.

Quick-Start

You must have npm installed before installing gitsie.

Install gitsie as follows: $ npm install -g gitsie This will install gitsie globally on your system. Next, check that it's working properly:

$ gitsie
gitsie: The github package manager
Usage: gitsie [options] [package]

Options:
  -s   /  search     Search for package
  -r   /  retrieve   Download project sources
  -d   /  delete     Remove project sources
  -i   /  install    Unpack sources to intended location
  -h   /  help       Show this help message

Retrieving a repository

Retrieving a repository from GitHub is as easy as: $ gitsie -r user/repo then, unpack the sources to wherever you like, by: $ gitsie -i user/repo path/to/some/place

Removing a repository

The source packages of a repository stay stored on your system until you remove them. To delete a repository from your system, run:

$ gitsie -d user/repo

Why Gitsie?

Flexible

From a developer's point of view, gitsie gives you much needed flexiblity. There are 4 different sripts that trigger on 4 important events: when your repo is being downloaded by the user, before and after the user has installed the repo, and before the user deletes your repo. Customize the 4 scripts to your preference an you have 100% control over your user's experience.

Fat-Free

unlike many of the popular package managers, gitsie doesn't come with all the bloat. the entire project size is about 4 MB, and that includes all the third party libraries, and other redundant stuff.

Easy to maintain

As mentioned earlier, all you have to do to customize the user's experience is to edit the 4 control scripts. You may have an interactive build system with issue-resolving; you can implement a system-setup using the post-install script. The choice is yours.

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