repo_status

Put git repository status in your command prompt

Disclaimer

Written in Zig.

Introduction

For this repo at time of writing, I have one changed file (this readme) and one untracked file, so my prompt looks like:

Details

Here's an example using fake data (all 2s) for every possible field:

The first '2' is repository status, and can be an 'R' or an 'M' if in a rebase or merge, for example.

Next, the '>' indicates that you're in a sub-repo. After that is the name of the current branch.

The rest of the codes mean:

• ahead of upstream
• behind upstream
• staged files
• changed files
• deleted files
• stashes on current branch
• untracked files
• conflicted files

The ✖ is a little out of sorts because that character isn't supported in my font, YMMV.

Interactive use

Primary usage is to put it in your shell prompt, but repo_status can also be used interactively. You can pass repo_status a path for it to give the status of a repository outside of your current directory.

Here's a scenario: you have a "projects" directory (my ~P in my screenshot above is a Zsh hashed directory pointing to my projects directory) and want to look through all your projects and make sure you didn't forget to push any commits, or see if you have any staged files you forgot to commit, etc.

Run this (this uses the excellent fd) to easily see the status of every repo under the current directory:

fd -td -d1 | while read -r dir; do
  echo -n "$dir: "
  repo_status "$dir"
  echo ''
done

repo_status prints nothing if called on a directory that isn't a git repo (and returns error code 2).

Build instructions

zig build-exe -OReleaseFast repo_status.zig