How to Tame Your Multi-Repo Chaos with the Terminal
Source: Dev.to
As a full‑stack developer or SRE, you likely live in a world of microservices and polyrepos.
You have 10, 20, or maybe 50+ repositories cloned locally:
apps/frontendapps/backendlibs/ui-kitinfrastructure/terraform- …and that one side‑project you forgot about.
The Problem: “Context Fatigue” 🛑
Every morning the ritual is the same: navigate to each folder, checking if you forgot to push changes or if you’re behind origin/main.
cd apps/frontend
git status
# nothing to commit
cd ../../libs/ui-kit
git status
# …Manually switching context kills productivity and pulls you out of your flow state before you even write a single line of code.
Existing GUIs (GitHub Desktop, Sourcetree) are often too slow or bloated. lazygit is great, but it’s designed for focusing on one repository at a time, not managing fifty.
The Solution: A “God Mode” Dashboard for Git ⚡️
I needed a tool that was:
- Blazing Fast – instant startup (written in Go)
- Terminal First – stay in the CLI
- Multi‑Repo – see the state of all projects in one view
So, I built Git‑Scope.
Key Features
- Recursive Discovery – automatically finds git repos in your
~/projectsfolder. - “Dirty First” Sorting – bubbles up repos with uncommitted changes so you never lose work.
- Fuzzy Search – type
/to jump to any project by name.
Who Is This For? (ICP & Use Cases)
1. The Microservices Backend Engineer 🏗️
Pain: A feature spans 5 services (auth, payments, core, …). You edited code in 3 of them but forgot which ones.
Solution: Open Git‑Scope. The “Dirty” status bubbles all 3 modified repos to the top. Commit and push them in seconds, keeping your PRs in sync.
2. The SRE / DevOps Engineer 🛠️
Pain: Managing dozens of Terraform modules or Ansible roles. Need to know if local copies are behind origin/main before running a plan.
Solution: One glance at the dashboard shows exactly which infrastructure repos are out of date (↓ 2 commits behind). Pull updates without cd‑ing into each directory.
3. The Open Source Maintainer 🐙
Pain: Maintaining 10+ libraries with random stashes and unpushed experimental branches scattered everywhere.
Solution: Use the Fuzzy Search (/) to instantly jump between libraries to review PRs locally. Use the “Clean” filter to find abandoned experiments you forgot to delete or push.
How to Install
macOS / Linux (Homebrew)
brew tap Bharath-code/tap
brew install git-scopeDirectly with Go
go install github.com/Bharath-code/git-scope/cmd/git-scope@latestWhy I Built This
I wanted a tool that respects the Unix Philosophy: do one thing and do it well.
Git‑Scope doesn’t try to replace git or lazygit; it complements them. It provides the high‑level radar functionality that was missing from my workflow, helping me stay in the flow and manage my local git universe without friction.
Check it out on GitHub and let me know what you think!