Recently I was clearing out my files and I wanted to delete some Git repos that I didn’t need locally any more, i.e., those which are fully synced to a remote repo. While looking through them, I was reminded how many places there are for local changes to hide in a repo, so I wrote a quick script:

https://github.com/tmewett/my-config/blob/main/bin/git-is-synced

Here’s an example:

tom@phoenix ~/P/BrogueCE> git-is-synced
There are stash entries.
Branch 'brogue-speak-v03-local' does not have an upstream configured.
Branch 'consistent-seize-checks' does not have an upstream configured.
Branch 'feature/audio' has unpushed commits.
Branch 'fix-exit-logic' has unpushed commits.
Branch 'from-cppcheck' does not have an upstream configured.
Branch 'msys2-action' does not have an upstream configured.
Branch 'update-gh-actions' does not have an upstream configured.
Branch 'v1.7.4' does not have an upstream configured.

The script checks:

• the working tree is clean
• there are no stashes
• all branches have upstreams
• no branch has unpushed commits

There’s probably more places, but this covered my usage. I hope it’s useful!

If you want to check the sync status of all Git repos in recursively beneath a directory, you could cd to it and run something like:

find . -name .git -print -execdir git-is-synced ';'

This looks for all .git directories and runs git-is-synced in the parent directory, which will be in the repo.