git all - simple multiple same folder repositories management

git commands for all repositories located in same folder

Cloning

Special thing in git all is cloning. In order to clone multiple repositories, you need to provide a file where every line is a valid set of arguments to reglar git clone

Let's say you have a file named repositories.list with the following content:

                  https://github.com/stencila/test.git renamedRepo
                  https://github.com/rtyley/small-test-repo.git
--branch gh-pages https://github.com/Samreay/WorkshopExample.git

If you execute git all clone repositories.list, as a result you will have the following folder structure:

renamedRepo/         # This folder will contain "test" repository, "master" branch
small-test-repo/     # This folder with contain "small-test-repo" repository, "master" branch
WorkshopExample      # This folder will contain "WorkshopExample" repository, "gh-pages" branch

Base Examples:

You can use whatever git command you want on multiple git repositories. All you need to do is to prepend it with all.

• git all status shows git status for all repositories in folder

• git all checkout master checkouts in all repos to local master branch

• git all checkout -b new_branch creates new branch new_branch all repos from current checked out branch

• git all tag v1 tags all current repositories status to lightweight tag v1

• git all tag -a v1 -m "version one" tags all repos current status to tag v1 with message "version one"

• git all push origin --tags pushes all tags from all repos

Ignore repositories

Ignored repositories should be listed in .gitallignore file, folder names with or without trailing slash symbol /

Scope Examples

You can create a file with list of repositories you want to use git all with, filename can start with '.', then git all will only iterate over listed folders.

In order to use scopes juse use the following syntax: git all {filename} {whatever commands you want to use}

Let's say you have .dev or (dev) file in the same folder as your git repositories with the following contents:

repo1/
repo2/
repo3/

Then you can use git all dev status and git all will execute commands only in those repositories. (Even if it's listed in .gitallignore) Note that you don't need to write git all .dev (with dot), but you can if you want to.

How To Intall:

• Clone this reppsitory
• Mark git-all file as executable
• Put in under your system PATH (move the file itself, or add gitall folder location to PATH)
  • for Linux you can do: sudo ln -s $(pwd)/git-all /usr/local/bin/
  • for Windows you can move git-all file to mingw64/bin folder of your Git installation (for instance C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64\bin)
• Use: git all [filename] {command} {parameters}

See Also:

• tkrajina/git-plus — multi in git-plus is the closest to what is done by git all
• naddeoa/git-bulk
• nosarthur/gita
• isacikgoz/gitbatch
• mu-repo
• myrepos

How it's different from all of the abovementioned software?

• It's zero-configuration
• It's written in bash
• You almost don't need to learn how to use it
  • Clone a list of repositories from file
  • Exclude git repositores you don't want to handle with git-all in .gitallignore
  • Just add all to whatever git command you want to execute on your repositories