Perform Git pull on all the sub directories

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Perform Git pull on all the sub directories

Dec 28, 2020

In one of my previous posts, I had shown how you can clone or checkout several repositories from TFS or GIT. Now once cloned you might have to periodically update the same. In that case you don’t have to go to navigate to each of the folder and perform git pull

You can do that easily in your linux terminal.

find . -type d -depth 1 -exec git --git-dir={}/.git --work-tree=$PWD/{} pull \;

This finds the immediate sub-directories which are git repositories and performs git pull on each of those sub-directories. You can notice that I am using -depth 1 which means this works only for first level sub-directories. I will share a post for n-level directories soon.