Sysgit does.

I wrote this as a tool for myself, because I have an absurd number of repositories on my system (something like 80, last time I counted). Keeping track of all of those repositories becomes a nightmare, especially when there are so many different states that a git repository can be in, and there's only one that you want to see:

On branch master
Your branch is up to date with 'origin/master'.

nothing to commit, working tree clean

It's a fairly simple tool, with a small number of functions. The basic usage is

Sysgit.py [flags] <subcommand> [subcommandFlags]

The most useful subcommand is list. This subcommand checks the environment variable SYSGIT_PATH (set by the user) for a colon-separated list of paths. It searches each of these paths for a git repository and, upon finding one, probes the repository to determine its state. If a repository is in a transient state (i.e. it may require action by the maintainer), the script prints information about what action may be required in the output. There is no output for repositories that are in a stable state. The output can be a little esoteric to read at first, but the help documentation (Sysgit.py list -h) is very complete and descriptive. Shown belown are examples of the script's output. See Sysgit.py list -h for more information.

Executing the script Sysgit.py with no arguments yields the usage information. Running Sysgit.py <subcommand> -h prints useful information about that subcommand.

The script depends on two environment variables in the shell.

• SYSGIT_PATH: Contains a colon separated list of paths to search for git repositories
• SYSGIT_IGNORE: Colon separated list of strings that, if appearing in the path of any git repository found, indicate that repository should be ignored.

The output can appear a little cryptic, which is why Sysgit.py list -h contains information for deciphering the output:

Using the list subcommand will print the names and state of any repositories that have changes. By default, Sysgit will only list repositories that have changes to the local tree on the checked out branch. The status string appears to the left of the absolute path of the repository.

If the status string contains an "S", there are changes to the local tree that have been staged for commit. If the status string contains an "M", the local tree contains modifications that have not been staged for commit. If the status string contains a "?", there are untracked files in the repository.

There are also other options to the list command which enable Sysgit to check for things such as a non-empty stash, discrepancies between remote and local refs, the existence of a bugs file, and the state of submodules, if they exist. See Sysgit.py list -h for more information.

This project is still under development. Please submit an issue for any bug discovered, and feel free to create a pull request if you have work to commit. The file bugs contains the most up-to-date list of bugs and to-do items.