In Harmony

Using the Go Interface mechanism, Mike demonstrates its practical application with a refresh program for local copies of Git repositories.

- Mike Schilli

Vacation time is travel time! I like to take my laptop with me on long-haul flights. After all, the best ideas for new articles always come to me at the worst possible times. But, without an Internet connection, neither Google nor ChatGPT work, and GitHub is also out of reach for code ideas. Even the stuff I wrote previously is stashed away in Git repositories, and – worse still – the copies on my laptop are not always up to date. That’s really annoying, because it means duplicating the work, which I want to avoid, or at least pesky integration and potential conflict-resolution tasks later, when I look to reconcile the texts I checked in while I was up in the air with an out of sync repository.

Wouldn’t it be great to fire up a program on my laptop before the plane takes off to update the local copies of all my checked-out Git repositories? It would need to sync the existing clones on the laptop with the latest cloud version until Git reported “up-to-date,” as well as clone repositories I previously only checked out on my home computer on my laptop to deliver all the resources I can access at home.

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