The design/idea

[yarikoptic]

Problem: quite often it is difficult to understand the "topology" of available clones of a git (git-annex) repository. Especially it is hard for git which allows different names for remotes across clones.

git-annex provides each git-annex capable clone clone with a unique UUID which helps to identify clones.

git-annex info is handy to visualize the known to git annex remotes. By default their descriptions are in the form hostname:path which provides a great hint to discover them.

Desire: a tool which would automagically crawl through the the clones and draw a schematic figure providing a "map" of the remotes/clones/git-annex special remotes. A somewhat crude motivation example was to draw a schematic for

• [DOC] ultimate datalad mermaid figure spatialtopology/spacetop-prep#67 (comment)

I would like the tool capable (aspects should be configurable) of

• automatically going through
  • ssh git remotes
  • https? remotes
  • git annex special remotes
• groupping them per each hostname or medium (e.g. multiple S3 special remotes in the same "cloud" on diagram)
• establishing errors as corresponding remote names
• showing git-annex UUID (may be abbreviated as cc9...835 for cc937fa9-542c-49ec-b3fc-b7c4df5d4835)
• expressing that "map" as mermaid diagram (so similar to what I did manually in [DOC] ultimate datalad mermaid figure spatialtopology/spacetop-prep#67 (comment))

OR may be such a tool already exists?