dotfiles/bin/git-sync
Jonny Barnes 24cb4c110a
git-sync: also mirror every branch the fork shares with upstream
The fork's copies of long-lived branches (demo-20, totara-19, lms) drifted
over a thousand commits behind upstream because only the default branch was
ever synced. Fast-forward each branch present on both remotes straight from
upstream's ref and push them in one go; skip and warn on divergence, and leave
a local copy alone if it carries commits of its own.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-10 09:16:21 +01:00

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#!/usr/bin/env zsh
# Bring the default branch up to date in a fork-model repo, and keep my fork's
# copy of it aligned: fast-forward it from whichever remote owns it, then push
# it to origin. Then do the same, without checking anything out, for every
# other branch the fork mirrors from upstream. Named git-sync and installed on
# the $PATH, so git finds it as `git sync`.
set -e
git rev-parse --git-dir > /dev/null
# The branch belongs to upstream in a fork, and to origin when there is no
# fork in play.
if git remote get-url upstream > /dev/null 2>&1; then
source_remote=upstream
else
source_remote=origin
fi
if ! git remote get-url origin > /dev/null 2>&1; then
echo "git sync: no 'origin' remote to sync" >&2
exit 1
fi
# Ask the server which branch is the default rather than reading
# refs/remotes/<remote>/HEAD. That ref is a cache written at clone time, and
# git does not refresh it when the default branch changes upstream - which is
# the whole reason this script exists.
branch=$(git ls-remote --symref $source_remote HEAD |
awk '/^ref:/ { sub("refs/heads/", "", $2); print $2; exit }')
if [[ -z $branch ]]; then
echo "git sync: could not work out the default branch of $source_remote" >&2
exit 1
fi
echo "Syncing $branch from $source_remote"
git fetch --prune $source_remote
# Re-point the cached HEADs at what the server just told us, so `git
# default-branch` and nvim's diff-against-branch prompt agree with this script.
git remote set-head origin --auto > /dev/null
if [[ $source_remote != origin ]]; then
git remote set-head $source_remote --auto > /dev/null
fi
# Be explicit about what the local branch tracks. A bare `git switch` has to
# guess, and refuses to when several remotes carry the same branch name - which
# they do as soon as a colleague's fork is added as a remote.
if git show-ref --verify --quiet refs/heads/$branch; then
git switch $branch
elif git show-ref --verify --quiet refs/remotes/origin/$branch; then
# Track origin, not upstream: this script keeps the fork's copy current, and
# it means a stray `git push` here goes somewhere I can actually write to.
git switch --create $branch --track origin/$branch
else
git switch --create $branch --track $source_remote/$branch
fi
# Never a merge commit: if the default branch has diverged locally, that is
# something to look at, not something to paper over.
git merge --ff-only $source_remote/$branch
if [[ $source_remote == origin ]]; then
exit 0
fi
git push origin $branch
# Every branch that exists on both remotes is one the fork mirrors (release
# branches, demo branches), so keep those current too. Branches only on
# upstream are colleagues' work, not mine to copy. Nothing is checked out here:
# origin is updated straight from upstream's ref, and a local copy is
# fast-forwarded in place if there is one.
git fetch --prune origin
refspecs=()
for other in $(git for-each-ref --format='%(refname:strip=3)' refs/remotes/$source_remote/); do
[[ $other == $branch || $other == HEAD ]] && continue
git show-ref --verify --quiet refs/remotes/origin/$other || continue
if git merge-base --is-ancestor origin/$other $source_remote/$other; then
# Fast-forward a local copy too, but leave one with local commits
# alone: that is my in-progress work, not drift.
if git show-ref --verify --quiet refs/heads/$other &&
git merge-base --is-ancestor $other $source_remote/$other; then
git fetch . $source_remote/${other}:refs/heads/$other
fi
refspecs+=("$source_remote/${other}:refs/heads/$other")
else
echo "git sync: skipping $other - origin has diverged from $source_remote" >&2
fi
done
if (( ${#refspecs} )); then
git push origin "${refspecs[@]}"
fi