for-each-branch

Iterate over all branches in a repository.

Requirements

This library requires git to be available in your PATH!

Installation

npm install for-each-branch

or

yarn add for-each-branch

Usage

const { forEachBranch } = require("for-each-branch");

forEachBranch({
  dir: "./a-local-git-workspace",
  callback: obj => console.log(obj.branch)
});

API

forEachBranch(options)

Calls git checkout for each remote branch and calls the callback. The options argument is an object with the following recognized keys:

• dir - The directory of the Git workspace
• branches (default /.+/) - Regular expression or string, branches not matching will be ignored
• remote (default origin) - Name of the Git remote
• force (default false) - Use --force when calling git checkout
• reset (default false) - Reset the branch to the head of the remote branch after checkout
• clean (default false) - Run git clean after checkout
• callback (default () => {}) - The callback to call after each branch has been checked out. When the callback returns a Promise, execution will halt until it is resolved

To prevent accidental deletions, force, reset and clean all default to false. However, they should probably be set to true for almost all use cases. Otherwise, switches between branches might not work or build results will be unreproducible.

The callback will receive an object of the form { dir, branch, head, branches, refs }, where dir is the directory of the Git workspace, branch is the currently checked-out branch, head is the SHA of the current HEAD of the branch, branches is a list of all (filtered) branches in the repository and refs is a list of { branch, head } items.

Returns a Promise that resolves to a list of { branch, head } items.

License

MIT