Sweepwip
Last couple weeks I coded a simple bash script to help me out on a simple
problem. Have you ever lost track of changes on different
projects/repositories? Do you work on a multiple repository project which
requires you to frequently update them all?
Most developers I know work in the same situation and end up coding a script to
help them out, I'm no different and did the same just in a more generic way. So
here is Sweepwip, a bash script that scans out all your git
repositories, fetch changes, apply fast-forward mergers, alert you of
repositories without remotes defined and so on.
How it works?
Given a directory Sweepwip will search for .git directories and will
execute a couple of harmless git commands, reporting some information
about the repositories like:
- Check if there are changes to be pushed to remote
- Check if there are local changes not committed
- Check if a remote is defined.
- Fetch changes from remote (not the default)
- Apply a fast-forward merge (not the default)
Code and extensibility
The code is plain bash and git, probably portable across most Unix like
OSes. Through a find search different functions are called once a git
repository is found. Is possible to easily extend it to execute more
commands just by adding more functions.
You can find the code on GitHub.