Quick script to help you keep track of any uncommitted or unpush changes to ANY repo on your workstation.

git-dirty

#!/bin/bash
for REPO in $( find ~/[A-Za-z]* -type d -depth 2 -name .git )
do
    cd "${REPO}"/.. 
    if [ ! -z "$(git status --porcelain)" >/dev/null ]
    then
        echo ${PWD} ------------
        git status --porcelain
        echo
        if [ ! -z "${*}" ];
        then
            echo  "running ${*} within ${PWD}... type 'exit' to continue, if this command is interactive..."
            ${*}
        fi
    fi
done

This is a classic "I scratched my itch, hope it helps" story.

I sometimes lose track of unpushed/uncommitted changes, across multiple projects / clients. To get a handle on this, I wrote this script called git-dirty and put it at /usr/local/bin, with execute permissions. Feel free to change the argument after find to match where you keep your code projects. This version starts with your $HOME directory. If you mostly work with golang, you might set it to $HOME/go/src, or if you work at Amazon, you might find $HOME/workplace/[A-Za-z]*/. useful.

It finds all your git repos under your home directory. For each repo it:

• checks to see if there are any pending changes.
• If there are, it will:
  • output the full path of the repo
  • run git status --procelain, and ...
  • if you provide an argument to it, also run that command.

So you could use this script in combination with other commands to do some useful stuff:

• git-dirty -- just show what you have that isn't committed, no action taken.
• git-dirty git pull -- make sure you have the latest for each repo. I keep forgetting to git-pull after merging CRs in the web console.
• git-dirty git reset --hard -- reset each repo back to whatever the latest local commit is.
• git-dirty git clean -- remove untracked files from the working tree.
• git-dirty zsh -- spawn into a shell into each "dirty" directory, where you can take any action you want interactively (i.e. git diff, git reset, make edits, commit/push your changes, or even use the Github CLI to create a PR. Just type exit from that shell, and git-dirty will find the next repo with uncommitted or unpushed changes, if any.

Comments welcome...