A shell script that parses this YAML-formatted requirements file and clones the specified Git repositories.

gitCloneFromRequirements.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# Function to parse and clone repositories
clone_repositories() {
    local requirements_file="$1"
    local projects_dir="${HOME}/Projects"

    # Validate requirements file
    if [ ! -f "$requirements_file" ]; then
        echo "Error: Requirements file not found." >&2
        return 1
    fi

    # Ensure Projects directory exists
    mkdir -p "$projects_dir"
    cd "$projects_dir" || exit 1

    # Parse repositories
    while read -r line; do
        if [[ "$line" =~ ^\ *-\ *src:\ *([^ ]+)$ ]]; then
            repo_url="${BASH_REMATCH[1]}"
            
            # Find corresponding version
            # version=$(grep -A1 "src: $repo_url" "$requirements_file" | grep "version:" | sed 's/.*version:[ ]*//')
            # version=${version:-master}

            # Repository name
            repo_name=$(basename "$repo_url" .git)

            # Check if repository folder already exists
            if [ -d "$repo_name" ]; then
                echo "Skipping $repo_url: Folder '$repo_name' already exists."
                continue
            fi

            echo "Cloning $repo_url (version: $version)"
            
            if git clone "$repo_url"; then
                cd "$repo_name"
                cd ..
            else
                echo "Failed to clone $repo_url" >&2
            fi
        fi
    done < "$requirements_file"
}

# Main script execution
main() {
    if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then
        echo "Usage: $0 <requirements_file>" >&2
        exit 1
    fi

    clone_repositories "$1"
}

# Call main with all script arguments
main "$@"