I often have at least 3 remote branches: master, staging and production. I have 3 local branches that track those remote branches.
Updating all my local branches is
The script from @larsmans, a bit improved:
#!/bin/sh
set -x
CURRENT=`git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD`
git fetch --all
for branch in "$@"; do
if ["$branch" -ne "$CURRENT"]; then
git checkout "$branch" || exit 1
git rebase "origin/$branch" || exit 1
fi
done
git checkout "$CURRENT" || exit 1
git rebase "origin/$CURRENT" || exit 1
This, after it finishes, leaves working copy checked out from the same branch as it was before the script was called.
The git pull version:
#!/bin/sh
set -x
CURRENT=`git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD`
git fetch --all
for branch in "$@"; do
if ["$branch" -ne "$CURRENT"]; then
git checkout "$branch" || exit 1
git pull || exit 1
fi
done
git checkout "$CURRENT" || exit 1
git pull || exit 1