`git-pulls`

Purpose

Perform git pull over one or more git repositories.

By default, it will only try to do git pull in a repository if the current branch is master or main. If the repo is some feature branch, it will not do git pull unless you override the behavior.

Syntax

Syntax: git-pulls [--verbose] [--dry-run] [---branch] [root]

Options and arguments

Argument	Description	Default
`root`	Specifies the directory in which to look for repositories	`~/repos`

Example

Dry-run

$ git-pulls --dry-run
2022-05-26 12:02:19,396 INFO /home/jpfuntne/bin/git-pulls:109 Processing '/home/jpfuntne/repos/bruno-ansible' ('/home/jpfuntne/repos/bruno-ansible')
2022-05-26 12:02:19,396 INFO /home/jpfuntne/bin/git-pulls:18 Executing ['git', 'branch']
2022-05-26 12:02:19,898 INFO /home/jpfuntne/bin/git-pulls:18 Executing ['git', 'log', '-1']
2022-05-26 12:02:20,460 INFO /home/jpfuntne/bin/git-pulls:133 cols: ['/home/jpfuntne/repos/bruno-ansible', 'master', 'b1452a9', '2022-05-17 06:54:19', 'Creating playbook to', '', '', '']
2022-05-26 12:02:20,462 INFO /home/jpfuntne/bin/git-pulls:109 Processing '/home/jpfuntne/repos/cisco-pfuntner' ('/home/jpfuntne/repos/cisco-pfuntner')
2022-05-26 12:02:20,462 INFO /home/jpfuntne/bin/git-pulls:18 Executing ['git', 'branch']
2022-05-26 12:02:21,201 INFO /home/jpfuntne/bin/git-pulls:18 Executing ['git', 'log', '-1']
2022-05-26 12:02:21,495 INFO /home/jpfuntne/bin/git-pulls:133 cols: ['/home/jpfuntne/repos/cisco-pfuntner', 'master', 'afdaa3d', '2022-05-24 10:37:05', 'Addressing issues fo', '', '', '']
2022-05-26 12:02:21,496 INFO /home/jpfuntne/bin/git-pulls:109 Processing '/home/jpfuntne/repos/docker' ('/home/jpfuntne/repos/docker')
2022-05-26 12:02:21,496 INFO /home/jpfuntne/bin/git-pulls:18 Executing ['git', 'branch']
2022-05-26 12:02:21,548 INFO /home/jpfuntne/bin/git-pulls:18 Executing ['git', 'log', '-1']
2022-05-26 12:02:21,605 INFO /home/jpfuntne/bin/git-pulls:133 cols: ['/home/jpfuntne/repos/docker', 'master', '6f4160e', '2019-09-13 13:42:54', 'I got the makefile t', '', '', '']
2022-05-26 12:02:21,606 INFO /home/jpfuntne/bin/git-pulls:109 Processing '/home/jpfuntne/repos/fun' ('/home/jpfuntne/repos/fun')
2022-05-26 12:02:21,607 INFO /home/jpfuntne/bin/git-pulls:18 Executing ['git', 'branch']
2022-05-26 12:02:21,682 INFO /home/jpfuntne/bin/git-pulls:18 Executing ['git', 'log', '-1']
2022-05-26 12:02:21,773 INFO /home/jpfuntne/bin/git-pulls:133 cols: ['/home/jpfuntne/repos/fun', 'master', '96fb36e', '2022-05-10 15:01:51', 'Trying setting of ne', '', '', '']
2022-05-26 12:02:21,774 INFO /home/jpfuntne/bin/git-pulls:109 Processing '/home/jpfuntne/repos/only-bruno' ('/home/jpfuntne/repos/only-bruno')
2022-05-26 12:02:21,774 INFO /home/jpfuntne/bin/git-pulls:18 Executing ['git', 'branch']
2022-05-26 12:02:21,838 INFO /home/jpfuntne/bin/git-pulls:18 Executing ['git', 'log', '-1']
2022-05-26 12:02:21,901 INFO /home/jpfuntne/bin/git-pulls:133 cols: ['/home/jpfuntne/repos/only-bruno', 'main', 'f34654f', '2021-11-09 10:30:46', 'adding title, main h', '', '', '']
2022-05-26 12:02:21,902 INFO /home/jpfuntne/bin/git-pulls:109 Processing '/home/jpfuntne/repos/pfuntner.github.io' ('/home/jpfuntne/repos/pfuntner.github.io')
2022-05-26 12:02:21,903 INFO /home/jpfuntne/bin/git-pulls:18 Executing ['git', 'branch']
2022-05-26 12:02:21,962 INFO /home/jpfuntne/bin/git-pulls:18 Executing ['git', 'log', '-1']
2022-05-26 12:02:22,026 INFO /home/jpfuntne/bin/git-pulls:133 cols: ['/home/jpfuntne/repos/pfuntner.github.io', 'master', '40d3412', '2020-11-07 09:05:29', 'Creating separate st', '', '', '']
2022-05-26 12:02:22,026 INFO /home/jpfuntne/bin/git-pulls:109 Processing '/home/jpfuntne/repos/toys' ('/home/jpfuntne/repos/toys')
2022-05-26 12:02:22,027 INFO /home/jpfuntne/bin/git-pulls:18 Executing ['git', 'branch']
2022-05-26 12:02:22,089 INFO /home/jpfuntne/bin/git-pulls:18 Executing ['git', 'log', '-1']
2022-05-26 12:02:22,168 INFO /home/jpfuntne/bin/git-pulls:133 cols: ['/home/jpfuntne/repos/toys', 'master', 'e46584a', '2022-05-24 15:08:28', 'Adding more potentia', '', '', '']
2022-05-26 12:02:22,169 INFO /home/jpfuntne/repos/toys/bin/table.py:583 args.rotate: False, order: ('Path', 'Branch', 'Old SHA1', 'Old Date', 'Old Text', 'New SHA1', 'New Date', 'New Text')
Path                                     Branch  Old SHA1  Old Date             Old Text              New SHA1  New Date  New Text
/home/jpfuntne/repos/bruno-ansible       master  b1452a9   2022-05-17 06:54:19  Creating playbook to
/home/jpfuntne/repos/docker              master  6f4160e   2019-09-13 13:42:54  I got the makefile t
/home/jpfuntne/repos/fun                 master  96fb36e   2022-05-10 15:01:51  Trying setting of ne
/home/jpfuntne/repos/pfuntner.github.io  master  40d3412   2020-11-07 09:05:29  Creating separate st
/home/jpfuntne/repos/toys                master  e46584a   2022-05-24 15:08:28  Adding more potentia
$

I honestly don’t use --dry-run very often. If I had it to do over again, I would do it differently. Perhaps it would be more useful and I would actually use it more!

I don’t think the debugging messages are necessary. I think I would get rid of them from --dry-run. They are still available through --verbose.
I would strive to actually go to the remote server and see what’s actually available. I don’t think it does that right now and that’s a shame.

Live run

I didn’t have any commits I was aware of needing. While working on this documentation, I pushed it while halfway-done and used git-pulls on another machine to freshen it.

$ git pulls
***************************
* /home/ubuntu/repos/toys *
***************************
Updating e46584a..d24e741
Fast-forward
 doc/git-pulls.md | 81 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 81 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 doc/git-pulls.md
From github.com:pfuntner/toys
   e46584a..d24e741  master     -> origin/master
Path                               Branch  Old SHA1  Old Date             Old Text              New SHA1  New Date             New Text
/home/ubuntu/repos/fun             master  96fb36e   2022-05-10 15:01:51  Trying setting of ne
/home/ubuntu/repos/toys            master  e46584a   2022-05-24 15:08:28  Adding more potentia  d24e741   2022-05-26 12:15:45  Preliminary doc for
/home/ubuntu/repos/bruno-ansible   master  b1452a9   2022-05-17 06:54:19  Creating playbook to
/home/ubuntu/repos/examples        master  c1ba3dc   2022-01-24 12:27:39  Create README.md
$

Again, if I had it to do over, I think I might get rid of all the nonsense at the start and make it more silent if it’s there are no errors or unexpected behavior.

Notes

There are a few reasons I use this script:
- I typically have the same repos cloned on various machines so they’re not hard to get out of sync if I don’t do git pull on them. I usually have four or more (see above) repos on each machine and I don’t like to have to think or do a lot of unnecessary keystrokes.
- In my full-time job, I work on a team where we have literally a couple of dozen repos. It would drive me crazy to freshen them all up manually so I love to use the script there.
I’ve gotten into the habit of using hyphens a lot in my script names. This is rather fortunate in this case because the standard git command is smart enough to be able to accept git pulls, equate that to git-pulls, and run my script just by virtue of the fact that the script is in my $PATH. Some might say that’s a bad thing but I like it.
I typically clone all of my working repos into ~/repos so that’s the reason for the default value of the root argument. I don’t know how common this is but I think it’s a good practice.
I sometimes forget the style of the argument and need to use trial-and-error. For example, ~/repos is fine usually for me but sometimes I want to target repos in another directory I’m not sure if I need to specify the parent directory (. or some other relative or absolute path) or one or more of the actual repositories. I go back and forth about which to use. If I had it to do over again, I might allow it to work either way and just seek out any directory that has a .git directory. Perhaps I’ll go back and work on this.