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Comment by stinos | Hacker News Reader

Nice, but is there a way to just run any command? I.e. just `gita <optional repo names/paths> <pass entire command line git -C repodir>`. This has advantages in that you don't have to go round via a command file, don't have to keep it synced across machines, don't have to remember what you put in the file etc, and can just use the git syntax which already took long enough to learn by heart :P

I've used multiple multiple repository tools and in the end all I happen to use is one (usually versioned) file to store a list of repositories and then a command which just loops over all repos and applies anything to it. If I need custom commands I use git aliases so that works both for normal git and whatever tool used.

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    → cat ~/bin/git-all
    #!/bin/bash

    # Exit on error. Append "|| true" if you expect an error.
    set -o errexit
    # Exit on error inside any functions or subshells.
    set -o errtrace
    # Do not allow use of undefined vars. Use ${VAR:-} to use an undefined VAR
    set -o nounset
    # Catch the error in case command1 fails (but command2 succeeds) in `command1 |command2`
    set -o pipefail
    # Turn on traces, useful while debugging but commented out by default
    # set -o xtrace

    help() {
      cat <<EOF

    usage: git all <any-git-command>

    Runs the git command for all repositories in the current directory.

    Examples:

      What just happened?
        git all log -1 --oneline

      What am I doing now?
        git all status --short --branch

      What is everything I'm working on?
        git all branch -vv
    EOF
    }

    banner() {
      echo -e "\\033[1m=== $1 ===\\033[0m"
    }

    main() {
      if (( $# < 1 )); then
        help
        exit 1
      fi

      folders=$(find . -maxdepth 2 -name .git -print0 | xargs -0 -n1 dirname)
      for folder in $folders;
      do
        banner "$folder"
        git -C "$folder" "$@" || true
      done
    }

    main "$@"

Missed this reply, but yes, that's what I'm talking about!

This is an interesting idea. I never thought about it before. My previous thinking is that if something really complex needs to be done, then I will go to that directory.

But I do see the convenience in your proposal

Version 0.7.0 supports a super mode, which delegates any git command/alias. The usage is

gita super <repo-name> <any command/alias>

For example:

gita super repo2 commit -am 'fix a bug'

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