Is it possible to do Git status for all repos in subfolders?

Question

I've got a folder, which contains about 10 subfolders each containing a separate git repo. So something like this:

MainFolder/:
-- GitRepoA/
-- GitRepoB/
-- GitRepoC/
-- GitRepoD/
-- etc.

I often want to check whats going on, specifically I would like a command which lists the output for git status for all subfolders in which something has changed. Does anybody know a solution for this? (I'm on Mac OSX by the way).

Duplicate of [Check status of all git repositories at once](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24352701/check-status-of-all-git-repositories-at-once). Seriously, like an **exact** duplicate. — , Jun 24 '14 at 18:23
Nevermind, that's the Windows solution, but I wouldn't be surprised if someone else already asked for an OS X or a *nix solution elsewhere. — , Jun 24 '14 at 18:26

score 7 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 24 '14 at 18:34

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If you need recursion (or will work as well if you don't):

find . -name .git -type d -execdir git status \;

For each directory named .git will execute git status from within the directory that contains it (-execdir). Wow, exactly what you want.

You can append -prune too so as to not go further in subdirectories of a git project to be more efficient (but might skip git submodules—I have no ideas how submodules work I never use them):

find . -name .git -type d -execdir git status \; -prune

answered Jun 24 '14 at 18:34

gniourf_gniourf

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it would be great to print the working directory before git status – jerry Mar 04 '21 at 05:56
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Had the same issue. I ended up with `find . -name .git -type d -execdir sh -c 'pwd ;git status' \;` – ruediste Mar 07 '21 at 16:52

score 4 · Answer 2 · edited Jun 24 '14 at 18:28

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Iterate over each directory, and set the working directory and .git directory with the commandline options --work-tree and --git-dir respectively:

for x in *; do git --work-tree="$x" --git-dir="$x/.git" status; done

edited Jun 24 '14 at 18:28

answered Jun 24 '14 at 15:06

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 24 '14 at 15:06

You can create a script. Perhaps also just create it as a function and place in .bash_profile.

#!/bin/bash

REPOS=(GitRepoA GitRepoB GitRepoC AnotherRepoA)

for R in "${REPOS[@]}"; do
    echo "Checking repo $R."
    pushd "$R" >/dev/null && {
        git status
        popd >/dev/null
    }
done

Place it in the main folder and run

bash script_name.sh

If your repos are in uniform, you can just do some things like:

shopt -s nullglob
REPOS=(GitRepo{A..Z} AnotherRepoA)

Or perhaps just

shopt -s nullglob
REPOS=(*)

Just as a function:

function check_repos {
    REPOS=(GitRepoA GitRepoB GitRepoC AnotherRepoA)

    for R in "${REPOS[@]}"; do
        echo "Checking repo $R."
        pushd "$R" >/dev/null && {
            git status
            popd >/dev/null
        }
    done
}

Is there a way to do this for every subfolder so that I don't have to manually define all folders? — kramer65, Jun 24 '14 at 15:10

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Jun 24 '14 at 15:12

I dealt with this by writing a shell script, mgit, that reads a hidden file .mgit in the current directory which contains a list of folders that are individual git repositories. It does something similar to this:

$ for d in */; do git -C $d status; done

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Nov 06 '20 at 02:21

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find . -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -type d -exec sh -c '(echo {} && cd {} && git status -s && echo)' \;

It works recursively. You can change maxdepth and mindepth for your requirements

answered Nov 06 '20 at 02:21

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Is it possible to do Git status for all repos in subfolders?

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