This is an obscure and confusing way of representing it. At the very least, I’d expect the addition of ⬇ to mean behind remote, and then ⬇⬆ to mean diverged (since it is logically just “both behind and ahead”).
For my part, I prefer a notation like “-4+5” to mean “4 commits behind, 5 commits ahead”, produced in this way in my $RPROMPT:
AFAIK mr does not need much config, mostly just running `mr register` after `git clone`. When you do need to set config, the `mr config` command can help. All that said, I do have a lot of custom config :)
There is a `mr bootstrap` command for pulling a repo with a .mrconfig file in it, and then pulling a bunch of repos from there, here is an example usage:
I guess what I want is a tool (not necessarily mr) that I point to a GitHub/Bitbucket/Gitlab project and it creates/updates the .mrconfig with all repos from the project.
It might be worth including such a tool into mr itself, by wrapping the official CLI tools gh/glab/etc. You could access it via `mr bootstrap github:@foo` perhaps.
But to be honest given the regular naming you might as well have a simple perl/ruby script to just read a list of names from STDIN and output the local directory-path, and remote.
Nice... I made "Bulk Git Ops" Bash functions to source into shell and tab-complete to invoke. (nb. I organise my sources like this: ~/src/{github,gitlab,bitbucket}/{usernames..}/{reponames..}).
Examples assume that repos you contribute to are spread across
remote hosts, and (hopefully) namespaced sanely. I organise my
sources as follows.
~/src/{github,gitlab,bitbucket}/{usernames..}/{reponames..}
QUERY: Count repos that are stale:
ls_git_projects ~/src/ | take_stale | count_repos_by_remote
QUERY: Count repos that are active (within 12 hours by default):
ls_git_projects ~/src/ | take_active | count_repos_by_remote
EXECUTE! Use 'xgit' to apply simple git commands to the given repos, with logs to STDERR/stty
ls_git_projects ~/src/bitbucket | xgit fetch # bitbucket-hosted repos
EXECUTE! Use 'proc_repos' to apply custom functions to, with logs to STDERR/stty
ls_git_projects ~/src/bitbucket | proc_repos git_fetch # all repos
ls_git_projects ~/src/bitbucket | take_stale | proc_repos git_fetch # only stale repos
ls_git_projects ~/src/bitbucket | take_active | proc_repos git_fetch # only active repos
EXECUTE! What's the current branch? Logs to STDERR/stty
ls_git_projects ~/src/bitbucket | proc_repos git_branch_current # all repos
EXECUTE! With logs redirected to hidden dir for logging (you must create it by hand first)
mkdir -p "${logdir}"
ls_git_projects ~/src/bitbucket | proc_repos git_branch_current 2>> "${logdir}/bulkops.log"
tail "${logdir}/bulkops.log"
My own my generic and more powerful git-map lets you run any git command on all repos at the same directory level. Simply putting the shell script in your path and then $git map status or $git map fetch etc
reminds me of an project I made many years ago to manage dependencies in between repositories. So if project A was waiting for a fix in project B to be in production, you could draw a line between the two commits (from project A to project B) and get notified when the commit in project B gets into the "production" branch. And then merge and deploy your feature branch from project A.
I really like your response and your approach to it; I would like to work with you. :P
I do not need a CLI tool. I can come up with a very simple script or even an one-liner (like you just did) to achieve what I want.
Worth noting that neovim shows some git status when editing a file inside a git repository, and there are ways to do the same from your shell.
FWIW, I think this project was vibe coded with an LLM, but if it works, it works, so it makes no difference to me. The only reason I mentioned it is that "vibe coding" is not inherently bad. I do not even like the term. If you "vibe code" without knowledge, then yeah, it is bad, just as bad as a shitty developer writing code is.
Thanks :D I like working with people who appreciate simple solutions.
This sort of response to complex solutions used to be more prevalent on HN. When I got downvoted I was like "..this is the end isn't it" :P Maybe the unix way is a dying strategy IDK, but you give me hope.
> FWIW, I think this project was vibe coded with an LLM, but if it works, it works, so it makes no difference to me.
I did not realise that, I'd be far more worried about running it than most human coded projects out of fear of it doing something destructive. Not that humans don't make mistakes, but at least they have a mental model and intent. I suppose it depends on the definition of "vibe coded" I've heard some people talk about sending the LLM off into a loop and then trying to use the result, whereas if you are just using it as a more powerful autocomplete and playing captain then that's a lot better.
Yeah, I am surprised that you would get downvoted for this. Seriously though. A simple yet effective solution. What is wrong with that?! This is what programmers used to do. :(
As for the LLM part: I have written a couple of projects with the help of LLMs and it works perfectly! I know what I wanted it to do and how, and I did extensive testing, and I am familiar with the whole code, of course. The problem arises when people who "vibe code" do not have the knowledge to begin with. It ended up writing code that I would write because of me. :D It just wrote it quicker, that is all. Ultimately I would have written the same code, but it would have taken me a bit more time because I would have had to read documentation first (which I do not mind, I love doing it).
I mean, i love those kind of cli tools but in my current mood, instead looking for it on github, I'd probably ask an frontier model:
“Create a cross-platform CLI tool that scans multiple Git projects (grouped by category) and reports their status (clean, modified, ahead, error) based on a YAML config.”
Allways surprised how far this gets me. Most of my dotfiles now got created this way.
Cool, I just had claude code write me something similiar this week to go through my immediate directories and get me this type of information on each one of this (since all of my git repos are under a single dir)
fun fact: check-projects is initially a nodejs script I wrote specifically for my projects few years ago;
My first usage to test out claude code was to generalize this script: cople hours later it was entirely rewritten with Go and and CI on github actions you see now here.
https://github.com/alajmo/mani