This is amazing about gr

[mixu]

Thanks! Glad to hear that! Let me know if you have any ideas for improvements, and I'll take a look at them next time I'm doing work on gr. I'm particularly interested if someone can up with a compelling team / project use case (e.g. multiple people working in a multirepo environment). gr works well enough for me but I think there is still some additional potential in terms of making common tasks easier to execute across a fixed set of directories.

[clintonhalpin]

I can probably give you a few insights on the team / project use case, I'm working on something similar to these libraries:

http://amp.ampersandjs.com/
http://tachyons.io/

Primarily I think I'll use this to:

• Run gulp tasks ( less, html, bump tags etc... )
• Git ( keep consistent branches, push tags )
• Install Bower or NPM packages

At some point it would be great to:

• Search / Replace across repos ( main use-case would be to update package.json things like that )

I still need to take a full look the plugin system and some of your ideas in the README. As I come across ideas or things I'll shoot them your way.

[coderjoe]

Another team project use-case. I'm working on a team of developers who are implementing a web project with a front-end in node.js, and a backend of many services. The project is polyglot (node and C# developed in Windows) and our teams may need to perform operations across all of our background service repositories, all front-end repositories, or collections of the whole.

I personally use this tool to operate on just those collections I care about. Just services, just front-end, or the project as a whole, allowing me to save hours of time over the week avoiding switching directories and repeating the same commands over and over.

I use it to do the following things (in order of frequency):

• Git (keep consistent branches, push tags etc...)
• Build the project in chunks I've defined as tags
• Run tests
• Check commit status and repository sanity (look for clean vs changes..)

Because we're on a polyglot project, the fact that gr pretty much only runs git commands, or arbitrary commands of my choosing, is a fantastic boon. Keep up the good work! 👍

[jbcpollak]

I started writing a tool like this yesterday in node.. then realized in the evening I should search and see if someone already had, and found gr! I haven't tried it yet, but here is my usecase, which I think gr will handle well:

We have a multi-repo project. To run end-to-end testing we need to run npm start in 8 separate repos. Developing a feature often involves modifying 1/2 or more of the repos, so being able to branch and check on the status of repos will be huge.

I'm also hoping to find some utilities to handle npm link, because there are also additional repos (beyond the 8!) that are libraries which need to be linked in if we have modified them.