Recursively update all local repositories in directory

update_git_repos.sh

#!/bin/bash

# Define the parent directory where all your Git repositories are located
# Run "pwd" in your terminal to find the correct path
GIT_REPOS_PARENT_DIR="/Users/balexandre/Repositories"

# Check if the directory exists
if [ ! -d "$GIT_REPOS_PARENT_DIR" ]; then
    echo "Error: Directory '$GIT_REPOS_PARENT_DIR' not found."
    exit 1
fi

echo "🤩 Starting Git repository updates in $GIT_REPOS_PARENT_DIR..."

CUR_LEN=0
DIR_LEN=$(find "$GIT_REPOS_PARENT_DIR" -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d | wc -l | xargs)
if [ "$DIR_LEN" -eq 0 ]; then
    echo "No Git repositories found in $GIT_REPOS_PARENT_DIR."
    exit 1
fi

echo "🤩 Found $DIR_LEN Git repositories"

# Loop through each subfolder in the parent directory
for repo_dir in "$GIT_REPOS_PARENT_DIR"/*/; do
    CUR_LEN=$((CUR_LEN + 1))

    # Check if it's a Git repository
    if [ -d "$repo_dir/.git" ]; then
        repo_name=$(basename "$repo_dir")
        echo -e "\n--- ⭐️ Entering $repo_name ($CUR_LEN/$DIR_LEN) ---"

        # Navigate into the repository directory
        cd "$repo_dir" || { echo "Failed to change directory to $repo_dir"; continue; }

        # Perform Git operations
        echo "Checking out develop branch..."
        git checkout develop || git checkout master || git checkout main || { echo "Failed to checkout develop in $repo_name"; continue; }

        echo "Fetching --all --prune..."
        git fetch --all --prune || { echo "Failed to fetch --all --prune in $repo_name"; continue; }

        echo "Pulling latest changes..."
        git pull || { echo "Failed to pull in $repo_name"; continue; }

        echo "--- 🏁 Finished $repo_name ---"
    fi
done

echo -e "\n🥳 All Git repositories updated."

# run the command below to make this script executable
# chmod +x ./update_git_repos.sh