Some simple utilities I've written to make using git more pleasant.

Usage: git all [--recursive] 'command'

Finds every submodule and runs a command in it. Similar to git submodule foreach, except it runs the commands in parallel. Nice for io-blocking things. Stdout for each command is buffered separately until all commands complete (stderr is not).

Example: git all 'git fetch && git merge --ff-only origin/master'

Usage: git multistatus upstream-head...

Print out a list of all refs/heads relative to a provided baseline. HEAD has a *. Local commits are listed below the ref name. Each ref is trailed by a number in parens which is the number of commits by which it trails the baseline.

This is designed to be run in a terminal under watch.

Example: git multistatus origin/master origin/branch/v2

Stomps on the current commit metadata date and author (plus whatever other args it has). A fine thing to do to a commit you've just patched up and rebased on top of a bunch of newer history before you resubmit it. Takes all arguments git commit --amend does.

Like all history smashing, don't do this on histories people already rely on.

Example: git commit -m "thing" ; touch foo; git add foo; git smash -a -C HEAD