Custom Git Status and Git Pull commands to work with all of your repositories

If you work with many Git repositories it is easy to miss a repository when you commit your changes, and very time consuming to pull from all repositories.

It is easy to automate both processes.

In this example, we will place all files in the ~/Git/devops-scripts folder. If you want to place your files at another location change it in the files below.

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In Windows

To find your home directory on a Windows workstation, open a Bash window (Git Bash) and execute

echo ~

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Create the Bash script files

Create a file with the list of Git repositories and save it as ~/Git/devops-scripts/git-repositories.txt
You can separate groups of repositories with empty lines.

# Local_Path+Remote_Path+Rename_the_folder_to(optional)
~/Git/MY_REPO1+https://github.com/MY_REPO1.git+RENAME_TO1
~/Git/MY_REPO2+https://github.com/MY_REPO2.git

~/Git/MY_REPO3+https://github.com/MY_REPO3.git

Create a file to check the status of all Git repositories and save it as ~/Git/devops-scripts/git-status.sh

#!/bin/bash

# git-status.sh
# Shows the GIT STATUS of the Git repositories and shows the recommended actions
# The list is in git-repositories.txt

eval input="~/Git/devops-scripts/git-repositories.txt" # Need EVAL, otherwise the Bash loop cannot interpret ~ as the home directory if the path contains ~

RED='\033[0;31m'
NC='\033[0m' # No Color

while IFS= read -r folder
do

 # Get the length of the path
 # On Windows the empty line manifests itself as a 1 character long not empty string
 path_length=${#folder}

 if [[ ( -n "$folder" ) ]] && [[ ( 1 < $path_length ) ]] ; then
 # The path is not empty and the length is greater than 1

 # Ignore the lines starting with #
 if [[ ! $folder == \#* ]] ; then
 # The line is not a comment, process it

 # Split the local and remote path
 eval local_path=$(echo "$folder" | cut -f1 -d+) # Need EVAL, otherwise the IF statement below does not work if the path contains ~
 remote_path=$(echo "$folder" | cut -f2 -d+)

 if [ ! -d "$local_path" ]
 then

 # The local directory doesn't exist.
 echo -e "${RED}$local_path does not exist, PULL to get $remote_path${NC}"

 else

 eval cd $local_path # Need EVAL, otherwise CD does not work if the path contains ~
 pwd | tr -d '\n'

 status=$(git status)

 # --------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # To handle

 # On branch master
 # Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'.
 # Untracked files:
 # (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)

 if [[ $status == *"Untracked files"* ]]; then
 echo -e " ---- ${RED}New files added, please ADD${NC}" | tr -d '\n' # -e tells echo to enable backslash escapes
 fi

 # --------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # To handle

 # On branch master
 # Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'.
 # Changes not staged for commit:
 # (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
 # (use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)

 if [[ $status == *"Changes not staged for commit"* ]]; then
 echo -e " ---- ${RED}Files changed, please ADD${NC}" | tr -d '\n' # -e tells echo to enable backslash escapes
 fi

 # --------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # To handle

 # On branch master
 # Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'.
 # Changes to be committed:
 # (use "git reset HEAD <file>..." to unstage)

 if [[ $status == *"Changes to be committed"* ]]; then
 echo -e " ---- ${RED}Please COMMIT${NC}" | tr -d '\n' # -e tells echo to enable backslash escapes
 fi

 # --------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # To handle

 # On branch master
 # Your branch is ahead of 'origin/master' by 1 commit.
 # (use "git push" to publish your local commits)
 # nothing to commit, working tree clean

 if [[ $status == *"git push"* ]]; then
 echo -e " ---- ${RED}Please PUSH${NC}" | tr -d '\n' # -e tells echo to enable backslash escapes
 fi

 # --------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # To handle

 # On branch master
 # Your branch and 'origin/master' have diverged,
 # and have 1 and 1 different commits each, respectively.
 # (use "git pull" to merge the remote branch into yours)
 # nothing to commit, working tree clean

 if [[ $status == *"git pull"* ]]; then
 echo -e " ---- ${RED}Repos diverged, PULL to merge${NC}" | tr -d '\n' # -e tells echo to enable backslash escapes
 fi

 # --------------------------------------------------------------------------

 echo

 fi

 fi

 fi
done < "$input"

Create a file to pull from all Git repositories and save it as ~/Git/devops-scripts/git-pull.sh

#!/bin/bash

# git-pull.sh
# Pulls Git repositories and clones the missing ones
# The list is in git-repositories.txt

eval input="~/Git/devops-scripts/git-repositories.txt" # Need EVAL, otherwise the Bash loop cannot interpret ~ as the home directory if the path contains ~

RED='\033[0;31m'
NC='\033[0m' # No Color

while IFS= read -r folder
do

 # Get the length of the path
 # On Windows the empty line manifests itself as a 1 character long not empty string
 path_length=${#folder}

 if [[ ( -n "$folder" ) ]] && [[ ( 1 < $path_length ) ]] ; then
 # The path is not empty and the length is greater than 1

 # Ignore the lines starting with #
 if [[ ! $folder == \#* ]] ; then
 # The line is not a comment, process it

 # Split the local and remote path
 eval local_path=$(echo "$folder" | cut -f1 -d+) # Need EVAL, otherwise the IF statement below does not work if the path contains ~
 remote_path=$(echo "$folder" | cut -f2 -d+)
 rename_folder_to=$(echo "$folder" | cut -f3 -d+)

 # Check if the local path exists
 if [ ! -d "$local_path" ]; then
 # The local directory doesn't exist.
 echo
 echo -e "${RED}$local_path does not exist, cloning $remote_path${NC}"

 # Get the parent directory name
 parent_dir="${local_path%/*}"

 # Create the parent directory
 mkdir -p $parent_dir

 # Go to the parent_dir
 cd $parent_dir

 # Clone the Git repository
 git clone $remote_path

 if [[ ( -n "$rename_folder_to" ) ]] ; then

 # Rename the folder if necessary
 end_of_url="${remote_path##*/}"
 filename="${end_of_url%.*}"

 echo -e "${RED}Renaming $filename to $rename_folder_to${NC}"

 mv $filename $rename_folder_to

 fi


 else
 echo
 eval cd $local_path # Need EVAL, otherwise CD does not work if the path contains ~
 pwd
 git pull

 fi

 fi

 fi

done < "$input"

Enable the script execution

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In Mac OS

Open a terminal window in the ~/Git/devops-scripts folder
Run these commands to enable the execution of the Bash files

chmod u+x git-status.sh
chmod u+x git-pull.sh

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Create an alias

Aliases allow you to execute commands from any folder in the command line and hide the complexity of the entire command.

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In Mac OS

If you use the iTerm terminal window

iTerm reads the configuration settings from the~/.zshrc file. If you use iTerm add the alias definitions to the end of the ~/.zshrc file.

Open the~/.zshrc file and add the lines below to the end of it

If you use the built-in OSX Terminal

The built-in Terminal windows reads the configuration settings from the~/.bash_profile file.

Open the ~/.bash_profile file and add the lines below to it

In Windows

If you use Git Bash

Navigate to your home directory ( cd ~ )
Create the Bash config file if does not exist
```
cp > ~/.bashrc
```
Bash will show the “cp: missing file operand” an error message, but it will create the file that you can edit with any text editor
Add the lines below to the file

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alias status='~/Git/devops-scripts/git-status.sh'
alias pull='~/Git/devops-scripts/git-pull.sh'

Refresh the settings in the Bash shell environment

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In MacOS

source ~/.bash_profile

In Windows

Close the Bash window and open it again

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How to use it

Open a terminal window in any folder

To check if you need to add, commit or push files in a Git repository:

status

If you have added new files to the repository you get:

/Users/YOUR_USER_NAME/Git/devops-scripts —- New files added, please ADD

If you have changed files in a Git repository you get:

/Users/YOUR_USER_NAME/Git/devops-scripts —- Files changed, please ADD

If you have already executed the git add . command, but have not yet committed the changes:

/Users/YOUR_USER_NAME/Git/devops-scripts—- Please COMMIT

If you have already committed the changes, but have not pushed the to the remote repository:

/Users/YOUR_USER_NAME/Git/devops-scripts —- Please PUSH

To pull from every Git repository before you start to work and clone the missing ones

pull

Custom Git Status and Git Pull commands to work with all of your repositories

In Windows

Create the Bash script files

Enable the script execution

In Mac OS

Create an alias

In Mac OS

If you use the iTerm terminal window

If you use the built-in OSX Terminal

In Windows

If you use Git Bash

Refresh the settings in the Bash shell environment

In MacOS

In Windows

How to use it

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