catchup.py

#python catchup.py log.txt <commit#>
#get log.txt by doing git log > log.txt
#get commit# by cat .git/refs/remotes/origin/master
import sys
import os

logFileName =  sys.argv[1] #log.txt
startCommit = sys.argv[2] #407fadabe28828e78cd84642eed6edc2ecca0e54
print logFileName
fo = open(logFileName,'r')
lines = [line.strip() for line in fo]
commitLines = []
for idx in xrange(0, len(lines)):
  l = lines[idx]
  if ('commit' in l):
    commitNum = l.split(" ")[1].strip()
    if (commitNum == startCommit):
      print 'Found it!'
      print idx
      print l
      break
    commitLines.append(commitNum)

print len(commitLines)
for idx in xrange(0, len(commitLines)):
  i = len(commitLines) - idx - 1
  c = commitLines[i]
  cmd =  "git push origin "+c+":master"
  os.system(cmd)
fo.close()

let's say you have a repo tracked on two different systems (i.e. app engine and bitbucket)
let's say you do a ton of work in one system (bitbucket) which leaves the other one ignored for a while
then you try to push to the ignored system but master there is behind by 35 some commits
and pushing all at once times out on remote
use this script to help you out 😃 by pushing one at a time