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 tedious:

git fetch --all
git rebase origin/master
git checkout staging
git rebase origin/staging
git checkout production
git rebase origin/production

I'd love to be able to just do a "git pull -all", but I haven't been able to get it to work. It seems to do a "fetch --all", then updates (fast forward or merges) the current working branch, but not the other local branches.

I'm still stuck manually switching to each local branch and updating.

Answer 1

Just posting an updated answer. git-up is no longer maintained and if you read the documentation, they mention the functionality is now available in git.

As of Git 2.9, git pull --rebase --autostash does basically the same thing.

Accordingly, if you update to Git 2.9 or later, you can use this alias instead of installing git-up:

git config --global alias.up 'pull --rebase --autostash'

You can also set this for every git pull as of Git 2.9 as well (thanks @VonC please see his answer here)

git config --global pull.rebase true
git config --global rebase.autoStash true

Answer 2

A slightly different script that only fast-forwards branches who's names matches their upstream branch. It also updates the current branch if fast-forward is possible.

Make sure all your branches' upstream branches are set correctly by running git branch -vv. Set the upstream branch with git branch -u origin/yourbanchname

Copy-paste into a file and chmod 755:

#!/bin/sh

curbranch=$(git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD)

for branch in $(git for-each-ref refs/heads --format="%(refname:short)"); do
        upbranch=$(git config --get branch.$branch.merge | sed 's:refs/heads/::');
        if [ "$branch" = "$upbranch" ]; then
                if [ "$branch" = "$curbranch" ]; then
                        echo Fast forwarding current branch $curbranch
                        git merge --ff-only origin/$upbranch
                else
                        echo Fast forwarding $branch with origin/$upbranch
                        git fetch . origin/$upbranch:$branch
                fi
        fi
done;