From 8e67e31bbed9219d93e2f88aeec6040aaf10020f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeff Carr <jcarr@wit.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2025 03:36:31 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] new init & config()

---
 config.go | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
 exit.go   | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
 main.go   |  5 ++++-
 3 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 config.go
 create mode 100644 exit.go

diff --git a/config.go b/config.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..24f047a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config.go
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"go.wit.com/lib/config"
+	"go.wit.com/lib/protobuf/forgepb"
+	"go.wit.com/log"
+)
+
+// sent via -ldflags
+
+func configInit() *forgepb.ForgeConfigs {
+	configs := new(forgepb.ForgeConfigs)
+	err := config.ConfigLoad(configs, "forge", "forge")
+	if err != nil {
+		log.Info("This tool requires your repos be scanned by forge first")
+		badExit(err)
+	}
+	return configs
+}
diff --git a/exit.go b/exit.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..151a176
--- /dev/null
+++ b/exit.go
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"os"
+
+	"go.wit.com/log"
+)
+
+func okExit(thing string) {
+	log.Info(thing, "ok")
+	// log.Info("Finished go-clean on", check.GetGoPath(), "ok")
+	os.Exit(0)
+}
+
+func badExit(err error) {
+	log.Info("go-gui-toolkits failed: ", err)
+	os.Exit(-1)
+}
diff --git a/main.go b/main.go
index f2702b0..68dda62 100644
--- a/main.go
+++ b/main.go
@@ -7,7 +7,10 @@ import (
 
 // go will sit here until the window exits
 func main() {
-	forge := forgepb.Init()
+	// read in forge info
+	cfg := configInit()
+	forge := forgepb.InitFromConfig(cfg)
+
 	all := forge.Repos.SortByFullPath()
 	for all.Scan() {
 		check := all.Next()