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.
- Make the
systemgit.shscript executable:chmod +x systemgit.sh - Create a symlink to your script from a folder on the path, e.g.,
ln -s /path/to/script/systemgit.sh $HOME/.local/bin/systemgit
- Create a list of git repositories. You can do this easily by navigating to
each directory and calling
systemgit add. The path is saved in the$HOME/.gitreposfile. If you have many git repositories within a parent directory, you can usesystemgit add-allto find and add them all, regardless of how deeply nested they may be. To remove a repository, simply callsystemgit removefrom the repository directory. Of course, you can always modify.gitreposmanually. - Call
systemgitorsystemgit showto view the status of all the repositories you've added to the.gitreposlist.
systemgit -hdisplays 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 runsystemgit add-allfrom your home directory to add them all automatically! - Any lines in the
$HOME/.gitreposfile that begin with a "#" character are printed to the screen whensystemgit showis called, a useful way to add "headers" to your list of repositories.