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)

Sweepwip

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.

Published in Jun 28, 2014