a replacement of git-repo sync

pullremote.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3

from os import system, getcwd, chdir
from os.path import join, exists


root = getcwd()
with open('housekeeping.txt', 'r', encoding='utf-8') as f:
        content = f.read()
        for line in content.split('\n'):
                stripped_line = line.strip()
                if stripped_line:
                        path = join(root, stripped_line)
                        if exists(path):
                                chdir(path)
                                assert not system('git pull --rebase'), 'failed to pull %s' % stripped_line
                        else:
                                print('warning: %s does not exist!' % stripped_line)
        chdir(root)
print('Done!')