System Git

Do you have dozens of repositories on your machine and can't keep track of which ones you need to push or pull to/from a remote server? System git is a simple command-line tool that maintains a list of git repositories and provides a simple interface to see the status of every repo at once, a quick way to see if you need to update or push any of them.

Installation

1. Make the systemgit.sh script executable: chmod +x systemgit.sh
2. Create a symlink to your script from a folder on the path, e.g., ln -s /path/to/script/systemgit.sh $HOME/.local/bin/systemgit

Usage

1. Create a list of git repositories. You can do this easily by navigating to each directory and calling systemgit add. The path is saved in the $HOME/.gitrepos file. If you have many git repositories within a parent directory, you can use systemgit add-all to find and add them all, regardless of how deeply nested they may be. To remove a repository, simply call systemgit remove from the repository directory. Of course, you can always modify .gitrepos manually.
2. Call systemgit or systemgit show to view the status of all the repositories you've added to the .gitrepos list.

Tips

• systemgit -h displays the help message.
• When you first set up the system, you can begin with find $HOME -name ".git" to get a list of repositories within your home directory. Or you can just run systemgit add-all from your home directory to add them all automatically!
• Any lines in the $HOME/.gitrepos file that begin with a "#" character are printed to the screen when systemgit show is called, a useful way to add "headers" to your list of repositories.