Git Bulk Toolkit (gbt)

A simple tool for managing and viewing the status of multiple local git repositories. Pull requests welcome

Example user stories and features of gbt:

As a git user I'd like to see the state of my locally cloned git repos, relative to their origins

• Fetch on all locally cloned repos, and view a summary of upstream or local changes

As a git user I'd like to get up to date with the origin on all my locally cloned repos

• Pull on all locally cloned repos

As a git user I'd like to see what changes my team has made over multiple repos, over a set time interval

• View a combined commit history on all locally cloned repos

As a git user I'd like to see which branches are ahead or behind origin/master

• View a list of all branches that are either ahead or behind master, and by how much

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Installation

Clone the repo and alias to the script in .bashrc, .zshrc, etc. For example:

alias gbs='~/Development/git-bulk-toolkit/gbt fetch status'
alias gbp='~/Development/git-bulk-toolkit/gbt pull status'
alias gbc='~/Development/git-bulk-toolkit/gbt checkout'
alias gbl='~/Development/git-bulk-toolkit/gbt log'
alias gbb='~/Development/git-bulk-toolkit/gbt pull branches'

If the git-bulk-toolkit repository is among those in the development directory, then the tool will let you know when it has an update.

Usage

When first run, gbt will ask you to select a development directory. It then operates on all git directories directly under this, so can be run from anywhere.

Examples

Show status for all repositories under development directory:

gbt status

Run 'git fetch' on all repositories under development directory, and show status:

gbt fetch status

Run 'git pull' on all repositories under development directory:

gbt pull

Run 'git checkout master' on all repositories under development directory:

gbt checkout master

Run 'git log' on all repositories under development directory, limited to the last n days, and merge the results:

gbt log n

Show a list of all branches that are ahead or behind origin/master, for all repositories under the development directory:

gbt branches

Todo

• Add user-friendly way to reset development dir
• Testing... way more testing for edge scenarios - did I mention PR's welcome!?