Organize Repositories into Hierarchical Groups

The basic usage model of SrcBox (creating and maintaining all the repositories in a single folder) eventually becomes a bit disorganized as the number of repos stored grows. To cope with larger sets, the hierarchical grouping of repositories was introduced: instead of having everything in a single folder, sub-folders within the repository storage can be also used.

Creating hierarchically grouped repositories can be done simply by specifying a path besides the name of the repo:

$ srcbox create applications/android/quickzone
$ srcbox create applications/android/fractalflame
$ srcbox create applications/iphone/quickzone

Importing too can be done using paths too for organizational requirements:

$ git clone git://github.com/karalabe/srcbox.git
$ cd srcbox
$ srcbox import tools/srcbox

If listed, the above would appear as:

$ srcbox list
List of repositories tracked by SrcBox:
 + applications
   + android
     - fractalflame
     - quickzone
   + iphone
     - quickzone
+ tools
   - srcbox

Cloning again works by specifying the path too in case of groupings:

$ srcbox clone tools/srcbox

One side note: currently there is no command for moving a repository after creation/import. The reasoning is the same as with repository deletion: manual execution is more conscientious than with a program. You can easily reorganize your repositories by moving them around inside the SrcBox repos folder. The only thing to take care of is that after a move any repository already cloned will have an invalid path. Just re-clone the repo with the new path (do make sure all the changes have been committed beforehand).