vcspull
Dev tools
repository sync
SHOW HN2016
21points
12comments
#1,166of 2,264 in 2016
Top 52%of 2016 by points
How HN took it
RoastedHalf or more of the comments are critical
0 positive, 4 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 4 critical, out of 8 comments about the project. Thread score -0.32.
Idea: 0 for, 3 againstDesign: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
Objections
Docs don't clearly explain what the tool does
From 2 comments
None of your documents indicate exactly what this does. It looks like it is a way to pull from multiple version controls systems with a single command, as well as do queries of…
joelkevinjones on HNProtip: If you have a live/animated demo/video as the first thing in your README, then you should really, really explain what happens and what is done. Here is an example (which…
dom0 on HN
Trivial task that a simple shell script could handle
From 2 comments
That's a lot of text + code for a rather trivial task.
stewbrew on HNI think this is a task for a very simple shell script.
sdsk8 on HN
Requests
Compare with mr (myrepos)
From 1 comment
It would be nice to have some discussion of how vcspull compares to mr (http://myrepos.branchable.com/)
danfromberlin on HN
Questions
What does it do exactly
From 2 comments
i'm not sure what this does, but i've been a happy user of https://github.com/msiemens/PyGitUp for the last couple of years. from the looks of it it does less, but as we all…
baq on HNNone of your documents indicate exactly what this does. It looks like it is a way to pull from multiple version controls systems with a single command, as well as do queries of…
joelkevinjones on HN
Alternatives named
mr (myrepos)
From 2 comments
see also mr: https://myrepos.branchable.com/
justinsaccount on HNYep, which also lets you define aliases as well so you can do even more. And its just a perl script, so its even easier to install/sync anywhere.
mitchty on HN
PyGitUp
From 1 comment
i'm not sure what this does, but i've been a happy user of https://github.com/msiemens/PyGitUp for the last couple of years. from the looks of it it does less, but as we all…
baq on HN