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by mst 3540 days ago
Not sure if it's something you'd call a social feature, but I find things like listrepos on an organization to be really helpful for piping into xargs to checkout everything a new customer depends on.

The PR stuff is so far as I can see complete in git-hub - what do you think you're missing?

(edit: if you meant gists, lots of the people I know already use paste site CLIs that handle that, btw, so to -us- that's more a social feature than the existing functionality is)
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guyzmo 3540 days ago
My bad, I did not scroll down to see how complete the command set was. At the top of the readme the list of commands is misleading (I thought there were only those at the first read).

I'm not sure I can see a real use for checking out every repo of an organisation (I mean, if you do that with mozilla, you better start before going for a long holiday ), but having it /possible/ is a great thing

So I guess we're pretty much alike, git-repo being strong for being service agnostic, and git-hub being more complete.

Though, in my redesign plan I got for version 2, I have in mind a framework to make it possible to implement service-specific CLI API, while sharing a same core CLI API for the service-agnostic features.

So my hope is that people will like the tool enough to participate in the development and help make the tool more feature complete across the services!

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mst 3540 days ago
> I'm not sure I can see a real use for checking out every repo of an organisation

Maybe I wasn't explicit about it, but I did (and do) have one:

New customer with a github org and I want everything from their org so I can have a spelunk through the code while getting up to speed, build out dependency graphs to get a feel for how things interrelate, etc.

In fact, making it possible to script checking out an org's worth of perl repositories and shoving them into an http://p3rl.org/App::opan instance easily was the thing that was painful enough for me to finally install git-hub.

So, yeah, it may not be a common use case but it's actually an essential feature for me. Whether this means you should prioritise stealing it likely depends on how common it is, which I can't answer :)

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softawre 3540 days ago
As a bitbucket user (for work), thanks for your contribution.
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