Ask HN: How to organize Git repos?

4 points·nkkollaw··7 comments

I have about 100 git repos in my GitHub account. It's become pretty hard to keep them organized, and separate the ones that I actually use.

I found a tool called Astral to organize repos you've starred, but nothing for your own repo.

How do people keep Git repos organized?

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Probably too crude a solution for you, but when I had that problem, I created a 2nd Github account (you can also use a Github organization), and made that account the owner of the 'archived' repos.

Did something similar.

My GitHub account: https://github.com/tmm

A deprecated projects GitHub org: https://github.com/tmm-archive

I mean--ingenious, but I was looking for something more advanced :-)

Can you describe what you envision?

Sure!

Pretty much the same as Astral, but for your own repos--not just starred ones.

In short, I'd like to login with my GitHub account, the thing fetches all my repos, and I can group them and tag them.

I might fork Astral as see if I can make it show my own repos inatead of starred ones...

So if I understand you correctly, you’re looking for a web app front end to organizing your github repos and ideally hosted on GitHub. Is that correct?

Do all the organisation client-side on your own computer(s) by building up some fine-grained config files for `myrepos`

https://myrepos.branchable.com/

https://linux.die.net/man/1/mr

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