update tool - a zig dependency update tool for your remote git dependencies

• i hate searching for the right commit hash and manually calling zig fetch --save git+...#aEfowkjdfwfd..
• this lib called update_tool gets the hash from your specified branch and runs zig fetch --save

automatic test steps

• with addTestFolder all zig files in the specified folder get added as test steps

Example Updating Git Dependencies

1. in build.zig.zon you add:

    .dependencies = .{
        // zig 0.15.1
        .update_tool = .{
            .url = "git+https://github.com/nat3Github/zig-lib-update#a0ef597d694e1d5f9752841cbf737095bb9c4cf9",
            .hash = "update_tool-1.0.0-MwAI-VgaAAB2y3AVVByTm1A6kQhyGB-QzWhGObaJhaKY",
        },
        // ...
    },

1. in build.zig you define your dependencies:

const update = @import("update_tool");
const deps: []const update.GitDependency = &.{
    .{
        // if you leave this the update_tool will update itself
        .url = "https://github.com/nat3Github/zig-lib-update",
        .branch = "main",
    },
    .{
        // update osmr
        .url = "https://github.com/nat3Github/zig-lib-osmr",
        .branch = "zig",
    },
    // add more dependencies here
};

pub fn build(b: *std.Build) void {
    const target = b.standardTargetOptions(.{});
    const optimize = b.standardOptimizeOption(.{});

    if (update.updateDependencies(b, deps)) return;

1. run zig build -Dupdate to invoke the update tool

Example Adding Tests

1. in build.zig you define your test folder:

const update = @import("update_tool");

pub fn build(b: *std.Build) void {
    const target = b.standardTargetOptions(.{});
    const optimize = b.standardOptimizeOption(.{});
    ...
    try update.addTestFolder(
        b,
        // this is the folder path (from build root)
        "tests",
        optimize,
        target,
        // add modules that are used in the tests
        &.{
            .{ .name = "my-module", .mod = my_module_i_want_to_test },
        },
        // this is the prefix- for the tests
        "testprefix",
    );

add a new file (first-test.zig) to the test folder
run `zig build testprefix-first-test.zig` to run the tests in first-test.zig
or run `zig build testprefix-all` to run all tests of that folder

Usage

this is Public Domain feel free to use it!

Performance

• it gets slow with a lot of dependencies
• this is due to zig fetch --save being slow
• i hope this gets improved on in future zig versions