Can “git pull --all” update all my local branches?

Question

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

Answer 1

It looks like many others have contributed similar solutions, but I thought I'd share what I came up with and invite others to contribute. This solution has a nice colorful output, gracefully handles your current working directory, and is fast because it doesn't do any checkouts, and leaves your working directory in tact. Also, it is just a shell script with no dependencies other than git. (only tested on OSX so far)

#!/usr/bin/env bash

gitup(){    
RED='\033[33;31m'
YELLO='\033[33;33m'
GREEN='\033[33;32m'
NC='\033[0m' # No Color

HEAD=$(git rev-parse HEAD)
CHANGED=$(git status --porcelain | wc -l)

echo "Fetching..."
git fetch --all --prune &>/dev/null
for branch in `git for-each-ref --format='%(refname:short)' refs/heads`; do

    LOCAL=$(git rev-parse --quiet --verify $branch)
    if [ "$HEAD" = "$LOCAL" ] && [ $CHANGED -gt 0 ]; then
        echo -e "${YELLO}WORKING${NC}\t\t$branch"
    elif git rev-parse --verify --quiet $branch@{u}&>/dev/null; then
        REMOTE=$(git rev-parse --quiet --verify $branch@{u})
        BASE=$(git merge-base $branch $branch@{u})

        if [ "$LOCAL" = "$REMOTE" ]; then
           echo -e "${GREEN}OK${NC}\t\t$branch" 
        elif [ "$LOCAL" = "$BASE" ]; then
            if [ "$HEAD" = "$LOCAL" ]; then
                git merge $REMOTE&>/dev/null
            else
                git branch -f $branch $REMOTE
            fi
            echo -e "${GREEN}UPDATED${NC}\t\t$branch"
        elif [ "$REMOTE" = "$BASE" ]; then
            echo -e "${RED}AHEAD${NC}\t\t$branch"
        else
            echo -e "${RED}DIVERGED${NC}\t\t$branch"
        fi
    else
        echo -e "${RED}NO REMOTE${NC}\t$branch"
    fi
done
}

https://github.com/davestimpert/gitup

Sorry I also seem to have come up with the same name as the other tool above.