How do I loop through all of my Git repositories and update them?

Question

I have a folder where I keep all of my Git repos. I usually just do git pull to get my changes, but now that I have over 50 repos it becomes a burden to have to do this for every folder.

How can I run a command that will loop through every repo and update it for me?

Answer 1

In Bash you can run this command which will loop through every repo in your working directory, stash your changes, fetch the origin and pull the latest commit.

for d in */; do cd $d; git stash; (git pull &); cd ..; done

Some things to note:

• This will use your working branch in your repo
• (git pull &) opens a subshell and executes in the background