Commit and push all repositories

One action that walks every repository Desktop Material knows about, pulls it, commits everything in its working directory under a single message you supply, and pushes the result. It is reached from the repository list's overflow menu, beside Sync repositories.

Since August 2026 the action is no longer all-or-nothing: the confirmation step lists every repository with local work as a checkbox, above a search bar, and runs exactly the ones left ticked.

Behavior

Choosing what runs. Every repository that has uncommitted changes or unpushed commits appears ticked. Untick any you do not want touched. The confirm button counts what will actually run — Commit & push all when nothing has been unticked, Commit & push 4 otherwise — and is disabled when the count reaches zero or the commit message is blank.

Searching. The search bar filters by repository name. Plain text is the default; the adjacent control opens the project's regex builder anchored to that field, and applying a pattern from it switches this search to regex mode. An invalid pattern is reported in an alert beside the field rather than silently matching everything.

Select shown / Clear shown act on the repositories the search is currently displaying and never on the ones it is hiding. This is deliberate: a bulk action that reaches past a filter is how a filtered list ends up committing something the person driving it could not see. Tick states for hidden repositories survive any amount of searching.

Running. Up to three repositories are processed at a time. Each is pulled first — through the same conflict-safe pull the Pull all action uses, which fails a repository rather than committing a conflicted tree — then all of its changes are committed with your message, then pushed. A clean repository is skipped and says so. A failure in one repository never stops the others, and every repository ends with a final status of Done, Skipped or Failed.

The dialog can be dismissed while a run is in flight; the run continues, and reopening the dialog re-attaches to it rather than starting a second one.

Configuration

There is nothing to configure. The concurrency limit of three, the pull-first ordering and the skip-if-clean rule are fixed. The commit message is required and is applied verbatim to every repository in the run.

Failure modes

Situation	What happens
Repository has no local work	Skipped, with "Repository is clean" as its detail
Repository was removed from Desktop between confirming and running	Skipped, with "Repository was removed."
Repository's folder is missing on disk	Skipped, with "Repository is missing."
Pull produces a merge conflict	That repository fails; nothing is committed in it
Push is rejected	That repository fails after its commit landed locally
An invalid regex is typed in the search	The list is left intact and the error is announced; nothing is filtered out
Every repository is unticked	The confirm button is disabled; the run cannot start

An empty selection passed to the store runs nothing. It deliberately does not fall back to "all repositories" — the whole point of unticking is that those repositories must not be touched.

Security considerations

The action commits every file in each selected repository's working directory, including files you have not reviewed. It is a bulk convenience, not a review step. Repository-level .gitignore rules still apply, and Cheap LFS pointer preparation still runs ahead of the commit, so an oversized file is handled the same way it would be in a single-repository commit.

The search evaluates locally under the regex guard's pattern, input and backtracking bounds; no query or repository name leaves the machine.

Verification

app/test/unit/commit-and-push-all-dialog-test.tsx covers the dialog:

the affected repositories are listed and a blank message disables confirming;
unticking a repository removes it from the ids handed to the store, and the confirm button's count follows;
filtering by name hides non-matching rows, and Clear shown leaves the hidden repositories ticked and running;
an empty affected list offers no message field and never calls the store.

Run them with:

node script/test.mjs app/test/unit/commit-and-push-all-dialog-test.tsx

Known gap

This dialog is hard-coded English throughout, including the controls described above. It predates the change that added repository selection and has not yet been routed through the language modes or the funny-level sliders. This is recorded in HANDOFF.md.