Git

As a developer, I tend to keep all kinds of things beyond just code managed with git.

In the past I have used a ~/.dotfiles repo with multiple symlinks, though there are alternate ways to handle it.

Having remembered that bare repositories and alternate work-trees are a thing, I did a short search before finding a tutorial. Initially using their example directly, we arrive at commands that look like this.

Mostly for scripting reasons and alerting reasons, there are multiple times when I have wanted a simple status of a repository. When working from the console, there is git-status which shows things in a human parsable format, but for scripts we need something more robust.

We can ue git-status with the –porcelain=2 flag to provide a lot more information, in a more easily machine parsable format. Seeing how starship parsed git-status helped me on this path.

Using this information, I wrote my own git-pending command to parse this data, into a form I could script against more easily.