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chrisdugne
A fast, cross-platform CLI tool to check the git status of multiple projects organized by categories.

Run check-projects to see which of your projects have uncommitted changes, are ahead of remote, or have other git status indicators.

rcleveng
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)
ngalaiko
things people do instead of having a monorepo
fastasucan
What if people work in different, totally unrelated projects and thus cant have the same repo?
alajmo
Cool, I wrote a similar tool but that let's users define their own tasks (comes with a tui as well) github.com/alajmo/mani.
alain_gilbert
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.
tomxor 

  ls | xargs -I % sh -c 'cd %; pwd; git status -s'
weinzierl
For working with many repos beyond pure status reporting there is Joey Hess's mr tool.

My only gripe is that configuration is manual and I wish there was an easy way fetch a set of repos from the well known forges into an mr config.

Oh, and I never figured out how to best work with it in a multi worktree per bare repo setup.

stevekemp
I wrote a wee helper to export all the repositories of your profile/organization into an MR configuration file:

https://github.com/skx/github2mr

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.

chrismorgan
> ⬆ - Ahead of remote

> ⬆⬆ - Diverged from remote

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:

  commits_behind=$(git log --oneline ..@{u} 2> /dev/null | wc -l || echo 0)
  commits_ahead=$(git log --oneline @{u}.. 2> /dev/null | wc -l || echo 0)
  if [ $commits_behind -gt 0 -o $commits_ahead -gt 0 ]; then
      echo -n " %{\x1b[33m%}"
      [ $commits_behind -gt 0 ] && echo -n -$commits_behind
      [ $commits_ahead -gt 0 ] && echo -n +$commits_ahead
  fi
funkattack
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.

tester457
I like mani. It's a cli that lets you run any command on all of your projects or a tagged subset of them.

  $ mani exec --all --output table --parallel 'find . -type f | wc -l'
  
   Project            | Output
  --------------------+--------
   example            | 31016
   pinto              | 14444
   dashgrid           | 16527
   template-generator | 42
The custom commands you define also have shell completions. It's like a just command runner, but for all of your projects.

https://github.com/alajmo/mani

r0ze-at-hn
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

https://github.com/r0ze-at-github/git-map