`git dirs' custom command to get git status for multiple directories recursively

[coderJeff]

I created a custom command for git that can get the status of multiple local git repositories. There are similar ideas posted around the web using bash scripts, etc. I have created this one as a freebasic executable.

It works for me, for what I am doing, but it needs more testing. I have only used it on Win7.

Code is posted at the following gist:
https://gist.github.com/jayrm/b1fbc8199 ... 076fc090d2

Here is an example of the execution & output:

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E:\fb>git dirs --status --recursive
        fbtools/cleanrc/
        fbtools/dtools/
                [master]: files modified (use "git add")
        fbtools/gettime/
        fbtools/git-dirs/
                [single-module]: files modified (use "git add")
                [single-module]: files staged (use "git commit")
                [single-module]: 1 commit(s) ahead (use "git push")
        fbtools/mkvideo/
        fbtools/scantree/
        fbtools/scantree/libjrm/
        fbtools/tmp/
                [master]: no upstream branch (use "git push --set-upstream origin master")
        fbtools/wakeup/
        libjrm/
                [master]: 6 commit(s) ahead (use "git push")

E:\fb>git dirs -h
usage: git dirs [options]

    -a, --all             all directories (except system)
    --color[=yes|no]      color formatting
    -r, --recursive       recursive
    -s, --sorted          sorted
    --status              query status of each git dir
    --fetch               perform a 'fetch --all --tags' at each git dir
    --system              include system directories
    -v, --verbose         be more verbose

E:\fb>

Basic procedure for the utility is as follows:
1) scan directories, recursively if option given
2) If .git folder found; it's a git repo, if .git file fond, it's a git submodule
3) execute some git shell/pipe commands on the git directory to determine the status
4) print the results

Over the years I have created many little utilities and projects. There are a few that I use regularly and I keep maintained. I have been making efforts to organize my source tree because I find that I have so many duplicate copies of similar files. I am using file:////server/share/path.git strategy on a LAN share for the upstream repo's. As I was creating more and more git repos, I needed this utility to help remind me what the state of each repo was.

Hope it is useful.

[counting_pine]

Pretty cool. It works well for me on Linux.
With '--status', it does show this message on some repos: fatal: no upstream configured for branch 'master'
Which I imagine is just a slightly less polite way of saying the master branch doesn't have a remote it can be pushed to.

[coderJeff]

counting_pine, thank-you for testing and reporting results. Fixed some bugs, added tests for detached head & no upstream branch. Now shows the current branch.

Updates on gist link:

- added: only follow system directories if --system command line option is given (was finding git repos in windows recycle bin)
- fixed: print <current directory> when current directory is a git repo or submodule
- fixed: only perform git fetch and status queries for git directories
- added: test for detached head
- added: test for no upstream branch
- added: --verbose option to show shell/pipe commands
- added: print current branch for each status ouput

(top post updated to show updated sample output)

Thanks again.