Don't remove people from Cc, please. Gelonida N <gelonida@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On 12/11/2011 03:22 AM, Sitaram Chamarty wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 01:26:32PM +0100, Gelonida N wrote: > > So what you want would boil down to this script (untested): > > > > #!/bin/bash > > git status --porcelain -uno | grep . && {echo dirty tree, exiting...; exit 1; } > > > > for b in `git for-each-ref '--format=%(refname:short)' refs/heads` > > do > > git checkout $b > > git merge --ff-only @{u} > > done > > Is there no way to distinguish tracking branches from other branches? > without checking them out? > > In order to save time I'd like to avoid checking out local branches. You can use 'upstream' field name in git-for-each-ref invocation, for example git for-each-ref '--format=%(refname:short) %(upstream:short)' refs/heads | grep -e ' [^ ]' | sed -e 's/ .*$// This could probably be done using only sed -- grep is not necessary. > Ideally I would even like to avoid checking out branches, which don't > need to be forwarded. You can use git-update-ref plumbing, but you would have to do the check if it does fast-forward yourself, and provide reflog message yourself too. Something like git for-each-ref '--format=%(refname) %(upstream)' | while read refname upstream do # there is upstream test -n "$upstream" || break # and if fast-forwards test $(git merge-base $refname $upstream) = $(git rev-parse $refname) || break git update-ref -m "$message" $refname $upstream done > I also had to remember on which branch I was in order to avoid, that I > am at a random branch after running the script. > > I could imagine something like my snippet below , though I guess, > there's something more elegant. > > git stash > mybranch=`git branch | sed -n 's/\* *//p'` > # do_script . . . > git checkout $mybranch > git stash apply Don't use git-branch in scripting. See __git_ps1 function in contrib/completion/git-completion.bash how it can be done: b="$(git symbolic-ref HEAD 2>/dev/null)" || b="$(git rev-parse --verify HEAD)" Nb. the second part is here only if there is possibility that you are on detached HEAD (unnamed branch). HTH (hope that helps) -- Jakub Narębski -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html