forge

This can be used to maintain git repositories expiremental work on federated git

• Scans directories looking for git repositories
• The default behavior is to use 3 branches. 'master or main', 'devel', ''
• shows tags and dirty state
• uses a GUI or the console(console display needs work)
• always wrap around 'git' -- it basically just types 'git' commands really fast

Notes & Goals:

• use a GUI that also works on the command line
• andlabs GTK gui plugin starts breaking around 200 repos

Install:

• go install go.wit.com/apps/forge@latest

building from sources (may work Jan 2026)

go install go.wit.com/apps/go-clone@latest      # this tool makes it easier to 'git clone' repos and recursively 'git clone' the dependancies
go install go.wit.com/apps/autogenpb@latest     # this tool will generate the protobuf *pb.go files (also Marshal(), Sort(), etc.)

go-clone --recursive go.wit.com/apps/forge      # this will 'git clone' about 20 repos into ~/go/src (or where your go.work file is)

cd go.wit.com/lib/protobuf/forgepb
make                                            # autogenpb will make .pb.go, marshal.pb.go and sort.pb.go files
cd go.wit.com/lib/protobuf/gitpb
make                                            # autogenpb will make .pb.go, marshal.pb.go and sort.pb.go files

cd go.wit.com/apps/forge
make                        # this runs GO111MODULE=off go build insuring that your using only your git sources

Debian packages:

Instructions are on https://mirrors.wit.com/