# mateodelnorte/meta

tool for turning many repos into a meta repo. why choose many repos or a monolithic repo, when you can have both with a meta repo?

Repository: https://github.com/mateodelnorte/meta
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/meta
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: git, repository, repository-utilities, meta, productivity
Last push: 2026-08-14T19:13:35+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 66/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 97, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3550, "days_push": 19, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2217, forks 103 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:27.264075+00:00)

## What it is
meta is a Node.js CLI tool that manages multi-project systems by combining many git repositories into a single 'meta repo', letting you run commands like git status or npm install across some or all child repos at once. It uses a simple commander.js-based plugin architecture and avoids the quirks of git submodules or subtrees.

## Use cases
- clone a multi-project architecture in one command
- run git commands across many repos at once
- npm or yarn install all projects in one go
- give every engineer the same project setup after cloning
- migrate a monorepo into many repos with meta project migrate
- give different teams different slices of the architecture via multiple metarepos

## When to choose
- your codebase spans many separate git repos that you want to manage together
- you want monorepo-like convenience without abandoning per-project repos
- you need to run the same command across a subset of directories/repos
- you want to avoid git submodules and subtree complexity

## When to avoid
- you have a single repository and no multi-repo needs
- you need atomic cross-repo commits or PRs that monorepo tooling provides
- your team already standardized on git submodules or a monorepo tool like Nx or Bazel

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: stable
- function: developer-tools, version-control, cli, workflow-automation, plugin-system
- domain: developer-tools, version-control
- platform: cli, cross-platform
- tags: git, meta-repo, multi-repo, monorepo-alternative, repository-management, command-line, automation, nodejs

## Member repositories
- mateodelnorte/meta (main) score 66

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:27.264075+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:45:55.733248+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/mateodelnorte/meta (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:27.264075+00:00, sha 4e00c9abd580)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/meta (fetched 2026-08-29T10:26:07.773037+00:00, sha 7fcd70aeccbf)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.