Projects config manager

A command-line tool to manage different projects / repositories on your machine.

Requirements

• PHP 8.4+

For development (or to install from source):

• Composer
• Box installed globally
• Ideally, using this tool on a Linux/Unix server,

Install

From source

• Clone the repo with git clone [email protected]:Pierstoval/Confman.git
• Go to the project's directory via cd Confman
• Run the composer install command
• Run the box compile command
• Your executable is in the output/confman.phar file 🚀

From latest releases

• Go to the latest release: https://github.com/Pierstoval/Confman/releases/latest
• Unwrap the Assets section
• Download the confman.phar file
• Save it in your computer 🚀

Usage

Everything is set in the run PHP file.

You can either use ./run or php run to execute it.

If you install it globally, you can rename the file to confman and add it somewhere accessible via your PATH environment variable.

Tips

• This tool uses the Symfony Console command. Meaning you can always use the --help option on any command to get information about it, and you can always use the list command to get the list of all available commands.
• Use the -c/--config option to create several configs. It can be useful when running similar commands on projects with the same stack. You can, for instance, create a npm category for all projects using NPM as package manager, or php for projects using Composer.

Create configuration files

You cannot use Confman is there is no configuration file for a project.

To create a config file, you have several options:

• Create a confman.json with empty content, either:
  • In the current directory
  • In the $HOME/.config/Confman/ directory
• Run the confman create command

The confman create command suggest accessible directories from your current execution path.

You can also categorize config files, so you can have multiple "projects", by using the -c/--config option.

Examples:

 > confman create

 Where do you want to create the config file?:
  [0] /home/my-user/current_directory/confman.json
  [1] /home/my-user/.config/Confman/confman.json
 > 
 > confman create -c some_category

 Where do you want to create the config file?:
  [0] /home/my-user/current_directory/some_category.json
  [1] /home/my-user/.config/Confman/some_category.json
 > 

Add a new project to the list

You have two choices:

• Manually update the confman.json file and add a project.
  Mandatory fields are name and path (for now, more might come in the future)
• Run the project:add or add interactive command, it will update the confman.json file automatically

 > confman projects:add

 Project name?:
 > MyProject

 Path?:
 > /var/www/html/my-project


 [OK] Done!

Or by directly adding the name and path as arguments:

 > confman projects:add MyProject /var/www/html/my-project

 [OK] Done!

List all projects

Run the projects:list or just projects command.

 > confman projects

Detected projects file: /home/myself/Confman/confman.json
------------------------------------------------------------

 ---------------------- ----------------------------- ---------------- --------------------------- -------------------------------------
  Name                   Path                          Current branch   Last commit date            Current remote URL
 ---------------------- ----------------------------- ---------------- --------------------------- -------------------------------------
  My Project             /home/myself/MyProject        main             2025-11-03 13:23:22 +0100   [email protected]:MyOrg/MyProject.git
  My other project       /home/myself/MyOtherProject   develop          2024-12-08 09:45:59 +0100   https://github.com/MyOrg/MyProj.git
 ---------------------- ----------------------------- ---------------- --------------------------- -------------------------------------

Run a particular command on all projects

Run the projects:command:all command or one of its aliases command or command:all.

> confman projects:command:all -- git fetch --all --prune

Running /bin/git fetch --all --prune on all projects…
-----------------------------------------------------

 ---------------------- ----------------------------- ------------------
  Project                Path                          Status
 ---------------------- ----------------------------- ------------------
  My Project             /home/myself/MyProject               ✅
  My other project       /home/myself/MyOtherProject          ✅
 ---------------------- ----------------------------- ------------------


 [OK] Done!

Helper/quick project commands

Git fetch

Runs the git fetch --all --prune command on all projects in parallel.

> confman proj:git:fetch

Running /bin/git fetch --all --prune on all projects…
-----------------------------------------------------

 ---------------------- ----------------------------- ------------------
  Project                Path                          Status
 ---------------------- ----------------------------- ------------------
  My Project             /home/myself/MyProject               ✅
  My other project       /home/myself/MyOtherProject          ✅
 ---------------------- ----------------------------- ------------------


 [OK] Done!