Abstract

Let's assume that on Windows, you put your development projects under a main or common directory, e.g., 'development', and all of these projects are local Git repositories.

The repetitive problem: めんどくさい mendokusai - a hassle

It gets tedious, if you have to navigate into every directory and execute 'git remote update'.

you@your-pc MINGW64 /d/developments
$ ls -1
foo-bar-backend/
foo-bar-db/
foo-bar-frontend/

Solution: a helper script

Using Git Bash on Windows, I recommend an executable bash-like helper script to navigate through all these projects and be done with it.

Write a helper script

Say, this script is named git_remote_update.bash:

#!/bin/bash.exe

echo
echo "Going into every directory here."
echo

for x in *;
do
    if [ -d "${x}" ]
    then
        if [ -e "${x}"/.git ]
        then
            cd "${x}"
            echo "${x}"
            echo "======================"
            echo "Calling git remote update ..."
            git remote update
            echo
            echo "Calling git status ..."
            git status
            echo
            cd ../
        fi
    fi
done

Set the file permission

Place this helper script in a dedicated directory, e.g., helperScriptsWindows, and change its permission so:

you@your-pc MINGW64 /d/helperScriptsWindows
$ chmod 755 git_remote_update.bash
$ ls -la
-rwxr-xr-x 1 you 197609 434 Mar 17  2018 git_remote_v.bash*

Include the directory into Path

Open the Windows Control Panel.
Navigate to System and Security => System => Advanced system settings => Environment Variables => System variables.
Click Path => New. Add the absolute path to the directory helperScriptsWindows. Done.

Check the PATH

You should be able to see the absolute path to the directory of your helper scripts is included:

you@your-pc MINGW64 ~
$ echo $PATH

Helper script usage

The script git_remote_update.bash should be already 'registered', and with few typing efforts, it's callable in the terminal:

you@your-pc MINGW64 /d/developments
$ git_remote_update.bash

Going into every directory here.

foo-bar-backend
======================
Calling git remote update ...
Fetching origin

Calling git status ...
On branch master
Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'.
nothing to commit, working tree clean

foo-bar-db
======================
Calling git remote update ...
Fetching origin

Calling git status ...
On branch master
Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'.
nothing to commit, working tree clean

foo-bar-frontend
======================
Calling git remote update ...
Fetching origin

Calling git status ...
On branch master
Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'.
nothing to commit, working tree clean

Have fun.

If repetitive, then script it.