Repo Imp Commands

repo forall is a command provided by the Repo tool used to manage multiple Git repositories (as Android source code is split across many repos).

• It executes a given shell command in each Git repository managed by repo.

📘 Syntax:

repo forall [project-list] -c [command]

repo forall -c 'git status --short' | grep -v "^$"

This command is used in a repo-managed Android source code environment to show a concise list of modified files across all git repositories, excluding empty lines. Here’s a detailed explanation:

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Symbol	Meaning
??	Untracked file
M	Modified in the working directory
M	Modified in the index (staged)
A	Added to index
D	Deleted from index
D	Deleted from working directory

Task	Command
See changes in file	git diff path/to/file
See all changes	git diff
Restore modified file	git restore path/to/file
Restore all modified files	git restore .
See untracked files	git status
Delete untracked files	git clean -f
Delete untracked files & folders	git clean -fd

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repo list | grep "java-middleware"

this command finds the absolute path of changed file.