A script for keeping git up to date

[Eric Dantan Rzewnicki]

On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 10:09:31PM +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 00:55:43 (CEST), Felipe Sateler wrote:
> > Ideas on how to make it faster are welcome (somehow finding out at
> > once all the up to date repositories would be good). The script is
> > specially slow in the best-case scenario (when all repositories are up
> > to date). Also, it currently does not abort when a pull was not a fast
> > forward, since gbp-pull does not return non-zero on that event. A bug
> > has been filed against git-buildpackage.
> > Finally, if some package has been removed from the pkg-multimedia
> > area, it will not be removed from the local computer.
> What I wonder is what's the correct workflow. Your script clones ever
> pkg-multimedia git repository. Do you have numbers how much disk space
> this takes? How much data needs to be transferred, and how long does git
> need for that?

It took 65 minutes to get all of them here. Disk space about the same as
Felipe's numbers.

-edrz