CLI tool to check the Git status of multiple projects

(github.com)

41 points | by chrisdugne 6 days ago ago

24 comments

  • tester457 a few seconds ago

    I like mani. It's a cli that lets you run any command on all of your projects or a tagged subset of them.

      $ mani exec --all --output table --parallel 'find . -type f | wc -l'
      
       Project            | Output
      --------------------+--------
       example            | 31016
       pinto              | 14444
       dashgrid           | 16527
       template-generator | 42
    
    The custom commands you define also have shell completions. It's like a just command runner, but for all of your projects.

    https://github.com/alajmo/mani

  • chrismorgan 22 minutes ago

    > ⬆ - Ahead of remote

    > ⬆⬆ - Diverged from remote

    This is an obscure and confusing way of representing it. At the very least, I’d expect the addition of ⬇ to mean behind remote, and then ⬇⬆ to mean diverged (since it is logically just “both behind and ahead”).

    For my part, I prefer a notation like “-4+5” to mean “4 commits behind, 5 commits ahead”, produced in this way in my $RPROMPT:

      commits_behind=$(git log --oneline ..@{u} 2> /dev/null | wc -l || echo 0)
      commits_ahead=$(git log --oneline @{u}.. 2> /dev/null | wc -l || echo 0)
      if [ $commits_behind -gt 0 -o $commits_ahead -gt 0 ]; then
          echo -n " %{\x1b[33m%}"
          [ $commits_behind -gt 0 ] && echo -n -$commits_behind
          [ $commits_ahead -gt 0 ] && echo -n +$commits_ahead
      fi
  • gerardnico an hour ago

    Nice.

    I made a git exec command for that. It executes a command on multiple repos.

    So to see the status of your local repositories cloned in the code directory of your home directory

    ´´´bash

    export GIT_X_REPOS_FILE=~/code

    git exec status

    ´´´

    Code: https://github.com/gerardnico/git-x/blob/main/bin/git-exec

    Doc: https://github.com/gerardnico/git-x/blob/main/docs/bin-gener...

  • leipert an hour ago

    Reminds me of a little tool I built to figure out if I can safely delete repos when upgrading/moving machines: https://gitlab.com/leipert-projects/git-recon

  • weinzierl 3 hours ago

    For working with many repos beyond pure status reporting there is Joey Hess's mr tool.

    My only gripe is that configuration is manual and I wish there was an easy way fetch a set of repos from the well known forges into an mr config.

    Oh, and I never figured out how to best work with it in a multi worktree per bare repo setup.

    • pabs3 2 hours ago

      AFAIK mr does not need much config, mostly just running `mr register` after `git clone`. When you do need to set config, the `mr config` command can help. All that said, I do have a lot of custom config :)

      There is a `mr bootstrap` command for pulling a repo with a .mrconfig file in it, and then pulling a bunch of repos from there, here is an example usage:

      https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/CheckOut

      mr does have bare repo support, I haven't tried git multi-worktree stuff before though. I guess you would have to manually register each worktree.

      • weinzierl an hour ago

        I guess what I want is a tool (not necessarily mr) that I point to a GitHub/Bitbucket/Gitlab project and it creates/updates the .mrconfig with all repos from the project.

    • igortg 2 hours ago

      Just for completeness, there's also mu-repo: https://fabioz.github.io/mu-repo/

      We've being using it for years. Very simple to setup.

  • funkattack 18 minutes ago

    I mean, i love those kind of cli tools but in my current mood, instead looking for it on github, I'd probably ask an frontier model:

    “Create a cross-platform CLI tool that scans multiple Git projects (grouped by category) and reports their status (clean, modified, ahead, error) based on a YAML config.”

    Allways surprised how far this gets me. Most of my dotfiles now got created this way.

  • pabs3 3 hours ago

    Reminds me of myrepos, there are a lot of projects like this.

    https://myrepos.branchable.com/ https://myrepos.branchable.com/related/

  • postoplust 5 hours ago

    Also see https://github.com/fboender/multi-git-status which I've used happily for a few years.

    It's a shell script (#!sh) and therefore easy as copy/paste to install.

    • adityaathalye 5 hours ago

      Nice... I made "Bulk Git Ops" Bash functions to source into shell and tab-complete to invoke. (nb. I organise my sources like this: ~/src/{github,gitlab,bitbucket}/{usernames..}/{reponames..}).

      ref: bulk-git-ops.sh in my repo https://github.com/adityaathalye/bash-toolkit/

      This way:

        Examples assume that repos you contribute to are spread across
        remote hosts, and (hopefully) namespaced sanely. I organise my
        sources as follows.
      
          ~/src/{github,gitlab,bitbucket}/{usernames..}/{reponames..}
      
        QUERY: Count repos that are stale:
      
          ls_git_projects ~/src/ | take_stale | count_repos_by_remote
      
        QUERY: Count repos that are active (within 12 hours by default):
      
          ls_git_projects ~/src/ | take_active | count_repos_by_remote
      
      
        EXECUTE! Use 'xgit' to apply simple git commands to the given repos, with logs to STDERR/stty
      
          ls_git_projects ~/src/bitbucket | xgit fetch # bitbucket-hosted repos
      
        EXECUTE! Use 'proc_repos' to apply custom functions to, with logs to STDERR/stty
      
          ls_git_projects ~/src/bitbucket | proc_repos git_fetch # all repos
          ls_git_projects ~/src/bitbucket | take_stale | proc_repos git_fetch # only stale repos
          ls_git_projects ~/src/bitbucket | take_active | proc_repos git_fetch # only active repos
      
        EXECUTE! What's the current branch? Logs to STDERR/stty
      
          ls_git_projects ~/src/bitbucket | proc_repos git_branch_current # all repos
      
        EXECUTE! With logs redirected to hidden dir for logging (you must create it by hand first)
      
          mkdir -p "${logdir}"
          ls_git_projects ~/src/bitbucket | proc_repos git_branch_current 2>> "${logdir}/bulkops.log"
          tail "${logdir}/bulkops.log"
  • pss314 6 hours ago

    "mr status" command gives status information of locally checked out repos. Refer https://myrepos.branchable.com/

  • tomxor 3 hours ago

      ls | xargs -I % sh -c 'cd %; pwd; git status -s'
    • chrisdugne 2 hours ago

      this lists all modifications, when check-projects tells you one line if your project is WIP:

      x uralys/web * M www

      then you go work with your modifications on your project. https://github.com/rupa/z is perfect to go from projects to projects.

      • tomxor an hour ago

          ls | xargs -I % sh -c 'cd %; pwd; [[ $(git status -s) ]] && echo WIP || echo clean'
  • alain_gilbert 6 hours ago

    reminds me of an project I made many years ago to manage dependencies in between repositories. So if project A was waiting for a fix in project B to be in production, you could draw a line between the two commits (from project A to project B) and get notified when the commit in project B gets into the "production" branch. And then merge and deploy your feature branch from project A.

  • chrisdugne 6 days ago

    A fast, cross-platform CLI tool to check the git status of multiple projects organized by categories.

    Run check-projects to see which of your projects have uncommitted changes, are ahead of remote, or have other git status indicators.

  • alajmo 7 hours ago

    Cool, I wrote a similar tool but that let's users define their own tasks (comes with a tui as well) github.com/alajmo/mani.

  • ngalaiko 7 hours ago

    things people do instead of having a monorepo

    • fastasucan 3 hours ago

      What if people work in different, totally unrelated projects and thus cant have the same repo?

    • chrisdugne 5 hours ago

      my projects are for different stacks, different people. they sometimes are themselves monorepo;

      the aim of check-projects is just to keep track of the work still not fully done and pushed.

  • rcleveng 7 hours ago

    Cool, I just had claude code write me something similiar this week to go through my immediate directories and get me this type of information on each one of this (since all of my git repos are under a single dir)

    • chrisdugne 5 hours ago

      fun fact: check-projects is initially a nodejs script I wrote specifically for my projects few years ago;

      My first usage to test out claude code was to generalize this script: cople hours later it was entirely rewritten with Go and and CI on github actions you see now here.