Projects

Project management for power users.

Installation

$ npm install -g projects

Quickstart

If the majority of your projects are subdirectories of one folder then the easiest way to get started is this (in my case my projects live underneath ~/p/):

$ npm install -g projects
$ echo "alias p=projects" >> ~/.bashrc
$ source ~/.bashrc
$ vim ~/.config/projects

# edit like so (note: this file will probably become JSON soon!)
[github]
username = beaugunderson

[projects]
directory = ~/p

$ p import ~/p/*
$ p github  # if you want to import metadata about your GitHub projects too

Try p remind, p git-status, p git-unpushed, and p not-git for examples of the time savings and management functionality I'm trying to enable.

Note that the color scheme currently assumes a dark background; if you find it hard to read try DISABLE_COLOR=true in your environment (a revamp of all colors is coming in the next version).

Shell completion

For autocompletion you can redirect projects --completion to a file in ~/.bash_completion (zsh is also supported) or use projects-modified.sh which also contains a fallback to _filedir so that you can still complete files and directories (I've opened an issue to get that improvement back into omelette, the completion library we use).

Commands

Command	Description
alias	output shell aliases
clone	git clone a project
each	run a command in each project directory
edit	edit projects files
gc	compact the projects database
get	get an attribute for a project
git-status	git status across all repositories
git-unpushed	display repositories with unpushed commits
github	fill your projects database with your GitHub repositories
glob	glob across all project directories
import	import a directory into projects
info	show the JSON for a given project
json-in	import your projects from plain JSON
json-out	export your projects to plain JSON
ls	list your porojects
open	open a project's homepage
not-git	list projects not in git
query	query your projects
remind	get a reminder of what you were last working on
set	set an attribute to a given value for a project

Writing your own commands

Projects is primarily a framework for making it easy to execute actions on one or more of your projects. For example, you could write a command to check the clean/dirty status of all of your checked out git repositories and list the dirty ones.

If you have an executable file in your PATH that starts with projects- then you can execute it underneath projects (and you're encouraged to share them with others!)

Examples

$ alias p=projects
$ cat ~/.config/projects
[github]
username = beaugunderson

[projects]
directory = ~/p

$ p info vim-scss-instead
{
  "name": "vim-scss-instead",
  "repository": "https://github.com/beaugunderson/vim-scss-instead.git",
  "language": "VimL",
  "role": "creator",
  "released": true,
  "status": "inactive"
}

$ p set vim-scss-instead homepage https://github.com/beaugunderson/vim-scss-instead
Set vim-scss-instead:homepage to "https://github.com/beaugunderson/vim-scss-instead"
$ p open vim-scss-instead # opens a web browser to the homepage URL
$ p clone vim-scss-instead
Cloning into '/Users/beau/p/vim-scss-instead'...
remote: Counting objects: 5, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (4/4), done.
remote: Total 5 (delta 0), reused 5 (delta 0)
Receiving objects: 100% (5/5), done.

$ p github
<snip>
Adding vim-scss-instead
Adding vim-human-dates
<snip>
Finished

$ p git-unpushed
node-helmsman: 6 commits ahead of origin
projects: 3 commits ahead of origin

You can also use something like fzf to make selecting a project via the CLI very easy:

contract-home() {
  sed "s|^$HOME|~|"
}

# cd to a project via fzf
pd() {
  cd $(projects ls -1 | \
    fzf --query="$1" | \
    xargs -I {} projects get --porcelain "{}" directory)
}

# open a project's URL via fzf
po() {
  open $(projects ls -1 | \
    fzf --query="$1" | \
    xargs -I {} projects get --porcelain "{}" homepage)
}

# edit a project file with $EDITOR via fzf
# note: requires gnu findutils
# on OS X you'll want to:
# `npm install -g ignore-pipe`
# `brew install findutils --with-default-names`
pe() {
  FILTERS='-type f '

  # filter out .git and node_modules with -prune to make the find much faster
  FILTERS+='-not -path \*/.git/\* -prune '
  FILTERS+='-not -path \*/node_modules/\* -prune '

  ADDITIONAL_FILTERS=$1

  if PROJECT_DIRECTORY=`projects resolve --relative .`; then
    FILE=$(bash -c "find $PROJECT_DIRECTORY \
      $FILTERS $ADDITIONAL_FILTERS 2> /dev/null" | \
        ignore-pipe | contract-home | fzf)
  else
    FILE=$(projects glob --expand | \
      xargs -I {} bash -c "find "{}" \
        $FILTERS $ADDITIONAL_FILTERS 2> /dev/null" | \
         ignore-pipe | contract-home | fzf)
  fi

  # bash -c needed to handle tilde expansion
  [ ! -z "$FILE" ] && bash -c "${EDITOR:-vim} "$FILE""
}

# edit a project file modified within in the last 7 days
per() {
  pe "-mtime -7"
}