[[!meta title="Working with Org-mode: Committing Changes Everywhere"]] I'm a huge fan of [Org-mode](http://orgmode.org/), and I keep all of my org-mode files in git repositories which are under [myrepos](http://myrepos.branchable.com/) control. However, because I often make lots of changes to my agenda and notes, I hate having to manually visit each individual project and make changes to it. [And it's also annoying when I forget to commit a specific change and then have to try to get my laptop and desktop back into sync.] Luckily, myrepos can easily run a command in parallel in all of the repositories! The following "update_org_files" command will update all of my org-file containing repositories in parallel: [[!format sh """ #!/bin/bash ORG_GREP='-e .org$ -e .org_archive$ -e .org_done$' if [ "x$1" == "xdoit" ]; then if git status --porcelain -z | grep -z '^ M' | grep -zq $ORG_GREP; then git status --porcelain -z | grep -z '^ M' | grep -z $ORG_GREP | \ sed -z 's/^ M//g' | \ xargs -0 git commit -m'update org files' git push; fi; else emacsclient -n -e '(org-save-all-org-buffers)' >/dev/null 2>&1 mr -d ~ -j5 run update_org_files doit; fi; """]] An [updated version](http://git.donarmstrong.com/?p=bin.git;a=blob_plain;f=update_org_files;hb=HEAD) of this lives in my [git repository](http://git.donarmstrong.com/bin.git) [[!tag tech org-mode emacs debian]]