forgetmenot is a small utility to check for git repositories which
have changes which are only locally visible, of a variety of
kinds. The idea is to make it easy to check, when working on many git
repositories across many machines, that the machine you are about to
shut down/travel away from/destroy does not have changes that you will
want somewhere else---for example, synchronising 'home' and 'work'
machines.
forgetmenot will start in a base directory (by default, your $HOME
directory), find all git repositories under that directory, and run
git on them to check for local changes and unpushed commits.
That's it. There isn't much to it.
Options:
-c <checks> List of checks to run, options are:
- 'all' [default]
- 'untracked'
- 'added'
- 'modified'
- 'deleted'
- 'unpushed'
Checks should be separated with commas or given as separate
-c arguments.
-e <pattern> Pattern for directories to exclude.
Should work with 'grep'.
Defaults to '^$' (i.e., exclude nothing)
-d <directory> Base directory to check from.
Defaults to the value of HOME.
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It would be nice to be able to have a config file in your home directory to specify either repositories you always want to ignore, or sub-configurations, so you could say something like
forgetmenot workand not get status info for all your personal projects. -
Check for bashisms for portability.