git-wizard - instant git magic and tricks

An interactive git shell utility for working efficiently.

Vision: collect git tricks, troubleshooting techniques and git wisdom under one hat and perform them interactively.

Beginners can enjoy learning git functionality interactively. Experienced command line git users can save time by using the wizard to perform frequent operations.

For example, when you have a merge conflict the wizard first suggests that you run mergetool.

Features

Fast

• Requires minimal key presses to perform the necessary actions.
• Faster then raw git CLI or GUI for many actions.

Comfortable

• Displays improved reports.
• Automatically performs routine tasks.

Smart

• Prioritizes issues by their importance.
• Filters unsuitable tasks and proposes to perform suitable ones.

For example, the wizard proposes to stage changes only when there are changed files.

Details

Internal checks

Each iteration, the wizard checks whether the repository contains collisions, operations in progress, conflicts, unmerged files, changes, stashes, ahead/behind commits, and untracked files.

It performs "git fetch" periodically and automatically.

It pronounces some valuable short messages audibly using the espeak application.

Internal actions

The wizard uses following commands under the hood: init, status, add, commit, mergetool, diff, fetch, push, pull, clone, stash, log, clean, gui and gitk, espeak.

Report

Reports the current status of the repository:

git-wizard report:

root: /home/costa/Dropbox/linux/git-wizard
conflicted files: 0
unmerged files: 0
in progress:
modified files: 2
head: master
local branches: 2
remote branches: 3
stashes: 2
commited: 2 minutes ago
remote: origin
fetch age (min): 6
local commits: 3
remote commits: 0
action itemes: 1
gone branches: 0
untracked files: 3

Other features

• Cleans up 'gone' branches and helps to keep your workspace tidy.

To do

• Analyze the details of 'in progress' status.
• You are welcome to request new features and add git tricks