Update & Sync GitHub Repositories in the morning

I have many habits during the day and the week, to reduce the workload and be more productive.

As you can see below, I use Microsoft To-Do to remind me of what I need to do each morning or at the beginning of the week, and one of the tasks is to update my local GitHub repositories.
I have many of those, and of course, it's not possible to do it manually.

This is the reason why I have created a PowerShell script that works for me.
You can copy my code and put the script in the main folder of your GitHub repositories and launch it from the command line.
It takes more or less 3-5 minutes (but it depends on how many repositories you have locally).

You can call the script by adding at the end of the file something like:

Sync-GitHubWorkspace -CleanBinObj

Check the other parameters in the function and change them based on your requirements.

In the video below, you can see the script running on my machine.

Feel free to share your feedback or make some changes to the script.

Comments

[jkfran]

Hi, this is cool to keep your local repositories up to date. I created recently something to help devs perform changes across multiple repos, it’s just a basic find & replace but I just want to share it here if that’s fine. gitbulk.com

[Emanuele Bartolesi]

thanks for sharing!

[Deval]

Hey. Thanks for the script. I know this is old post and people who are using mac/linux had already developed the similar script (bash file) for themselves. Though I am posting bash-script which is running fine in my macbook. So if incase someone is looking for this post in future, it might help:

#!/bin/bash

branches=("master" "main" "develop" "dev")

# Get all directories in the current directory (just the first level)
repos=$(find ./* -maxdepth 1 -type d -name ".git")
function update_repos {
    pushd ".." > /dev/null

    branch=$(git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD)
    echo "Current branch: $branch"

    if [[ " ${branches[*]} " == *" $branch "* ]]; then
        if git status --porcelain | grep -q '^\?\?'; then
            # Untracked files exist
            echo "There are untracked files" >&2
        elif git status --porcelain | grep -vq '^\?\?'; then
            # Uncommitted changes
            echo "There are uncommitted changes" >&2
        else
            # All clear
            branch=$(git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD)
            head=$(git rev-parse HEAD)
            origin=$(git rev-parse origin/HEAD)

            if [ "$head" != "$origin" ]; then
                echo "Pulling changes on branch: $branch"
                git pull
            else
                echo "$branch is up to date"
            fi
        fi
    else
        echo "Not one of the default branches. Pull it manually."
    fi

    popd > /dev/null
}

echo "Starting..."
for i in $repos; do
    # https://www.git-tower.com/learn/git/faq/cleanup-remote-branches-with-git-prune
    echo $i
    echo "Git fetch prune: $i"
    pushd "$i" > /dev/null
    git fetch --prune

    update_repos

    popd > /dev/null

    echo "----------------------------------------------------"
done
echo "Your GitHub folder is up to date."

echo "----------------------------------------------------"
echo "----------------------------------------------------"
echo "Removing bin & obj folders"
#find . -type d \( -name "bin" -o -name "obj" \) -not -path "./node_modules/*" -exec rm -rf {} +
echo "All bin & obj files and folders are removed."

Feel free to share your feedback/make some changes in this script.
PS: I have commented out this code in my script:All bin & obj files and folders are removed.