git what

Print a summary of your git branches.

Think of it as a combination of git branch, git status and git log intended to answer the common question "what was I doing?" when you are working on several branches simultaneously.

Download and install

To install:

git clone https://github.com/andybalaam/git-what.git
cd git-what
sudo make install

To uninstall:

sudo make uninstall

Usage

To see what is happening on your many branches, type git what, or just what:

$ what
-- Branches --
* main

  no-ant-compile
    f925838 Experiment with compiling without Ant

  no-ant-test
    98a2442 Remove unnecessary comment
    bce2b02 Avoid Ant for running tests

  water-animation
    3b62858 WIP - attempts to fix water animation

-- Changes on main --
 M rabbit-escape-engine/test/rabbitescape/engine/CallTracker.java
?? rabbit-escape-engine/test/rabbitescape/engine/Fireballs.java

(Where your terminal supports it, the output is coloured.)

License

git what is Copyright (C) 2017 Andy Balaam and is released under the GNU GPLv2 or later.