I’ve had this git alias called upall for a while now. It finds all git
repositories and runs a git up on them. up is another alias which is
a git pull with rebase, pruning, and merged branch cleanup.
cleanup = !git fetch -p && git for-each-ref --format '%(refname:short) %(upstream:track)' | awk '$2 == \"[gone]\" {print $1}' | xargs -r git branch -D
up = !git pull --rebase --prune && git cleanup
upall = !"find . -type d -name .git -exec echo \\; -execdir pwd \\; -execdir git co -q main \\; -execdir bash -c \"git up | awk '/Already up/{next} {print}'\" \\;"
It worked fine and did what it was supposed to, but you may be able to guess the issue that bugged me from the beginning. It was fine at first, but we must be getting our repositories wet because they multiply like crazy.
➜ /usr/bin/time git upall
150.53 real 9.55 user 9.31 sys
So my goal this weekend was to wave whatever rubber chicken I needed to in order to add some parallelism to that alias. I’ve tried and failed a couple of times to do this. With that in the back of my mind, I stalled and went to stack overflow to see what they had to say about it.
I found Managing many git repositories. Asked nearly 14 years ago. Oh boy, what kind of ancient tooling do we have in here? There were a lot of different suggestions, but I found one comment that was only a couple of years old promoting gita. Off to github fully expecting the last commit to be a couple of years ago, but much to my surprise it was 2 weeks ago. Bingo.
I blindly went back to the terminal…
➜ brew install gita
Warning: No available formula with the name "gita". Did you mean git, gitg or giza?
A few seconds of blank stares making sure I didn’t misspell it. It is only 4 letters, but ya never know. Back to the readme and a search for ‘installation’
pip3 install -U gita
Very audible sigh
I closed my eyes and followed along and was glad I did because it did exactly what I was needing.
It does require you to add a repository to its known list of repositories, but it has
a gita add -a which will add all the repositories it finds under the current
directory.
The super command was what I was looking for which will run a git command or
alias against all of it’s managed repositories.
So I changed my alias to
upall = !"gita add -a . && gita super up"
➜ /usr/bin/time git upall
3.65 real 4.70 user 5.19 sys
Give it a try if you have a bunch of repositories that you manage and want to supercharge your workflow.