recursive git status

git-status-recursive

#!/usr/bin/php
<?php
$repos = array();
exec('find -type d -name .git | sed -e "s/\.git//"', $repos);
foreach ($repos as $repo) {
    $status = shell_exec("cd $repo && git status");
    if (false == strpos($status, 'nothing to commit (working directory clean)')) {
        echo "$repo\n" . str_repeat('-', strlen($repo)) . "\n$status\n\n";
    }
}

Protip: git status -s

hm, i print the full change log if there is a change. i think its useful to see that to better see what happened.

How about:

find . -type d | while read dir ; git status -s $dir ; done

instead?

Update to the previous code:

find . -type d | while read dir ; do git status -s $dir ; done

yet another version:

find . -name '.git' -type d | while read dir ; do sh -c "cd $dir/../ && git status" ; done

one more:

find . -type d -name '.git' | while read dir ; do sh -c "cd $dir/../ && echo -e \"\nGIT STATUS IN ${dir//\.git/}\" && git status -s" ; done

git status -uall

Output a directory name only if something has changed in that git repo:

find . -type d -name '.git' | while read dir ; do sh -c "cd $dir/../ && git status -s | grep -q [azAZ09] && echo ---- ${dir//\.git/} ---- && git status -s" ; done

I use this one:
find . -type d -depth 1 | while read dir ; do echo -e "\n\033[1m${dir}\033[m"; git -C "${dir}" status -s ; done

Key is to use -C $dir or you'll probably get fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git

From git(1):

-C path
Run as if git was started in instead of the current working directory.

I also use this command to show me which Git has not "origin" remote:
find . -type d -depth 1 | while read dir ; do echo -e "\n\033[1m${dir}\033[m"; git -C "${dir}" remote show origin > /dev/null 2>&1 || echo -e "\033[0;31mNO REMOTE\033[0m"; git -C "${dir}" status -s ; done

Output looks like:

./SplashBuddy

./Send_Message_to_M
NO REMOTE
 M .DS_Store
 M "Send Message to M/Base.lproj/main.xib"

probably too late. but just adding so that person ending up here has one more choice
find . -name .git -type d -execdir git status -s ';'

    #! /bin/sh

    BLACK=`tput setaf 0`
    RED=`tput setaf 1`
    GREEN=`tput setaf 2`
    YELLOW=`tput setaf 3`
    BLUE=`tput setaf 4`
    MAGENTA=`tput setaf 5`
    CYAN=`tput setaf 6`
    WHITE=`tput setaf 7`

    BOLD=`tput bold`
    RESET=`tput sgr0`

    find . -name ".git" -type d | while read dir; do echo -e ${YELLOW}${BOLD}${dir/.git/}${RESET}; sh -c "cd ${dir/.git/} && git status"; done

git status -uall

The best!

based on:

• @dooferlad's solution (from this thread)
• @ftiff's solution (from this thread)

changes:

• .git is actually often not a directory, but a file (in the case of sub-modules), thus I had to remove the -type d part
• modified the grep ... part to not exclude the parent repo, if it contains changes

features:

• fat dir name
• only show (sub-)repos with changes
• no sub-shells (for performance)
• works for non-dir .git sub-modules

one-liner:

find . -name '.git' | while read repo ; do repo=${repo//\.git/}; git -C "$repo" status -s | grep -q -v "^\$" && echo -e "\n\033[1m${repo}\033[m" && git -C "$repo" status -s || true; done

as bash script file with custom extra options for status:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Recursive `git status` (including sub-modules)

set -e

status_ops="$*"

find . -name '.git' \
	| while read repo
do
	repo=${repo//\.git/}
	git -C "$repo" status -s \
		| grep -q -v "^\$" \
		&& echo -e "\n\033[1m${repo}\033[m" \
		&& git -C "$repo" status $status_ops \
		|| true
done

If you store this in your PATH as git-status-recursive,
and use git config --global alias.rst '!git-status-recursive' (for example in your ~/.profile),
then you can use it like git rst -s.

Thank you @hoijui!

One comment: the script fails if the folder contains '.git' in its name. For example, I have a Github page repo named Gabriel-p.github.io and the script will fail with:

fatal: cannot change to './Gabriel-phub.io/': No such file or directory

@Gabriel-p strange.. it does not happen here. :-/

I tested it like this:

mkdir tmp
cd tmp
mkdir .git
mkdir bla.github
mkdir ergwergwerg
mkdir ergwergwerggit
mkdir ergwergwerg/bla.github

find . -name '.git'

Which spits out only this:

./.git

which I think.. is what should happen, according to the man page of find; -name should match only on the complete file name.

Is it possible that you are using some obscure version of find? maybe OSX?
though even there it woudl be strange to diverge like this... I don't know!

@hoijui Try creating a .git folder inside bla.github (and remove the top .git folder to avoid an error because it is not a valid git folder), and then run your script. I get this:

fatal: cannot change to './blahub/': No such file or directory

The problem is not with the find . -name '.git' line but with the repo=${repo//\.git/} line. Using this instead

 repo=${repo%".git"}

seems to do the trick.

ahh very good, thank you @Gabriel-p!

// replaces anywhere, % replaces only a match on the end of the string, so % is to be used here.

fixed version of the script:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Recursive `git status` (including sub-modules)

set -e

status_ops="$*"

find . -name '.git' \
	| while read -r repo
do
	repo=${repo%".git"}
	(git -C "$repo" status -s \
		| grep -q -v "^\$" \
		&& echo -e "\n\033[1m${repo}\033[m" \
		&& git -C "$repo" status $status_ops) \
		|| true
done

... and as one-liner:

find . -name '.git' | while read -r repo ; do repo=${repo%".git"}; (git -C "$repo" status -s | grep -q -v "^\$" && echo -e "\n\033[1m${repo}\033[m" && git -C "$repo" status -s) || true; done

For Windows users... try this in the root folder above the folders to search:

 for /f "tokens=*" %a in ('dir .git /adh /b /s') do (echo off & cd "%~pa" & cd & git status -s)

(The echo off helps the output look less cluttered but may wreck your prompt. If so, exit the window when done.)

@glittle , awesome,
If you want to check all git folders in "C:\some-folder" run the following (1 level, runs faster)
for /f "tokens=*" %a in ('dir /ad /b') do (echo off & cd "c:\\some-folder\\%~a" & cd & git status -s)

You don't need to search everything. Do:

find . -maxdepth 2 -name .git -type d -exec sh -c "cd {}/..;git status" \;

find . -name '.git' | while read repo; do echo -e "\n$(dirname $repo)"; git --git-dir=$repo --work-tree=$(dirname $repo) status -s -b; done

ahh very good, thank you @Gabriel-p!

// replaces anywhere, % replaces only a match on the end of the string, so % is to be used here.

fixed version of the script:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Recursive `git status` (including sub-modules)

set -e

status_ops="$*"

find . -name '.git' \
	| while read -r repo
do
	repo=${repo%".git"}
	(git -C "$repo" status -s \
		| grep -q -v "^\$" \
		&& echo -e "\n\033[1m${repo}\033[m" \
		&& git -C "$repo" status $status_ops) \
		|| true
done

... and as one-liner:

find . -name '.git' | while read -r repo ; do repo=${repo%".git"}; (git -C "$repo" status -s | grep -q -v "^\$" && echo -e "\n\033[1m${repo}\033[m" && git -C "$repo" status -s) || true; done

I discovered from here that if you want to run that script as a git command without making an alias, you have to:

1. Name your script: "git-command"
2. Make your script executable
3. Move your script to a directory that's in your PATH

E.g.:

If your PATH contains ~/.local/bin/ and you named your script "git-str" then:

chmod +x git-str && mv git-str ~/.local/bin/

Now you can run: git str.

To any Linux novice, beware of what script you make executable, as it may be dangerous for your system.

(The echo off helps the output look less cluttered but may wreck your prompt. If so, exit the window when done.)

after the command is done, typing echo on will bring back the prompt.

This one (1) produces a slim output, and (2) starts printing the results instantly (you don't have to wait it to finish to see the final output):

find . -maxdepth 2 -name .git -type d -exec sh -c "cd {}/..; pwd; git status -s" \;