% MGITSTATUS(1) % Ferry Boender % Mar 2022
mgitstatus - Show uncommitted, untracked and unpushed changes for multiple Git repos.
mgitstatus [--version] [-w] [-e] [-f] [--throttle SEC] [-c] [-d/--depth=2] [--flatten] [--no-X] [DIR [DIR]...]
mgitstatus shows uncommitted, untracked and unpushed changes in multiple
Git repositories. By default, mgitstatus scans two directories deep. This
can be changed with the -d
(--depth
) option. If DEPTH is 0, the scan
is infinitely deep.
mgitstatus shows:
-
Uncommitted changes if there are unstaged or uncommitted changes on the checked out branch.
-
Untracked files if there are untracked files which are not ignored.
-
Needs push (BRANCH) if the branch is tracking a (remote) branch which is behind.
-
Needs upstream (BRANCH) if a branch does not have a local or remote upstream branch configured. Changes in the branch may otherwise never be pushed or merged.
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Needs pull (BRANCH) if the branch is tracking a (remote) branch which is ahead. This requires that the local git repo already knows about the remote changes (i.e. you've done a fetch), or that you specify the -f option. mgitstatus does NOT contact the remote by default.
-
X stashes if there are stashes.
Since there are a lot of different states a git repository can be in, mgitstatus makes no guarantees that all states are taken into account.
--version : Show version
-w : Warn about dirs that are not Git repositories
-e : Exclude repos that are 'ok'
-f : Do a 'git fetch' on each repo (slow for many repos)
--throttle SEC : Wait SEC seconds between each 'git fetch' (-f option)
-c : Force color output (preserve colors when using pipes)
-d, --depth=2 : Scan this many directories deep. Default is 2. If 0, the scan is infinitely deep
--no-depth : Do not recurse into directories (incompatible with -d)
--flatten : Flatten output by only showing one status per line. If a repo has multiple statuses, multiple lines are shown for that repo. This aids in grepability.
You can limit output with the following options:
--no-push : Do not show branches that need a push.
--no-pull : Do not show branches that need a pull.
--no-upstream : Do not show branches that need an upstream.
--no-uncommitted : Do not show branches that have unstaged or uncommitted changes.
--no-untracked : Do not show branches that have untracked files.
--no-stashes : Do now show stashes
--no-ok : Do now show repos that are 'ok' (same as -e)
The following command scans two directories deep for Git projects and shows their status:
$ mgitstatus
./fboender/sla: ok
./fboender/multi-git-status: Needs push (master) Untracked files
./other/peewee: ok
To scan deeper (three dirs instead of two) in the current dir:
$ mgitstatus -d 3
The following command scans three levels deep in /opt/deploy/
and hides
repos that are 'ok'. It does not show stashes:
$ mgitstatus -e --no-stashes -d 3 /opt/deploy
To ignore a repo, set the mgitstatus.ignore
git configuration option for
that repo to true
. E.g.:
$ cd stupidrepo
$ git config --local mgitstatus.ignore true
Sort output by repo name while retaining colors:
$ mgitstatus -c | sort
./ansible: ok
./ansible-cmdb: Needs push (master) Uncommitted changes Untracked files
./davis: ok
./espy: Uncommitted changes Untracked files
./garner: Untracked files
./garner-chains: ok
./mdpreview: ok
Sort output by repo status while retaining colors:
$ mgitstatus -c --flatten -e | sort -k2
./fboender/ansible-cmdb: Uncommitted changes
./fboender/espy: Uncommitted changes
./fboender/multi-git-status: Uncommitted changes
./fboender/ansible-cmdb: Needs push (master)
./fboender/ansible-cmdb: Untracked files
./fboender/espy: Untracked files
./fboender/garner: Untracked files
./fboender/multi-git-status: Untracked files
Force color output and flatten the output so we can grep for things:
$ mgitstatus --flatten -c | grep Uncommitted
./fboender/multi-git-status: Uncommitted changes
./fboender/ansible-cmdb: Uncommitted changes
./fboender/espy: Uncommitted changes
Copyright 2016-2022, Ferry Boender (et al).
Licensed under the MIT license. For more information, see the LICENSE.txt file.