Scan filesystem for changes not committed to version control
Project description
When working on a version-controlled project on my hard drive, I often flip over to another project to make a quick change. By the end of the day I have forgotten about that other change and only find it months later when I enter that repository again. I needed a way to be alerted at the end of each day about any uncommitted changes sitting around on my system.
Thus was born this “uncommitted” script: using by either your system locate(1) command or by walking a filesystem tree on its own, it will find version-controlled directories and print a report on the standard output about any uncommitted changes still sitting on your drive. By running it from a cron(8) job you can make this notification routine.
Installing and running “uncommitted”
You can install the latest version of “uncommitted” from the Python Package Index with:
$ pip install uncommitted
This should make the “uncommitted” shell command available to you, placing it in the same directory as Python. You can then run “uncommitted” on a directory and its subdirectories by typing:
$ uncommitted ~
Should you ever want a list of all repositories, and not just those with uncommitted changes, you can use the “-v” verbose option:
$ uncommitted -v ~
You can always get help by running “uncommitted” without arguments or with the “-h” or “–help” options.
There is also support for using the locate(1) command to scan for repositories, which lets “uncommitted” operate quickly even over very large filesystems:
$ uncommitted -l ~/devel
But be warned: because the locate(1) database is only updated once a day on most systems, this will miss repositories which you have created since its last run. It also will not work at all if your home directory is missing from the database because of permissions, encryption, or the version of locate(1) that you have installed. So do not trust the output when using this option until you have verified by hand that it can indeed see an uncommitted change that you leave somewhere deliberately!
Supported VCs
At the moment, “uncommitted” supports:
Git (.git directories)
Mercurial (.hg directories)
Subversion (.svn directories)
To operate, “uncommitted” requires the command-line tool for the corresponding version-control system to be runnable from the shell. Note that I am not opposed to someone contributing code to support Bazaar, or other more obscure version control systems, if you want to contribute additional detection and scanning routines.
Changelog
1.4 (2013 Oct 5)
Made -w the default, not -l.
Add compatibility with Python 3.
1.3 (2010 May 10)
Bugfix: the Git command is “status” not “st”.
1.2 (2010 May 9)
Eapen contributed code to support Git.
1.1 (2010 April 24)
Bugfix: changed locate(1) command line to use shell wildcards, since it does not support regular expressions under MacOS X.
Bugfix: all repositories were being called “Subversion” repositories.
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