A simple ubuntu app indicator that lets you know if any of the monitored git repositories require attention.

Inspired by git-dude, and the late SVN-Monitor, RIP.

git-indicator is meant to work with checked out repositories, not bare ones. The idea is to tell you if there's a reason to do commit, push or pull your current branch.

AFAIK, this thing only works on the latest ubuntu. By default, git-cola is used for committing.

Clone the git-indicator repository into some convenient location:

git clone https://github.com/itsadok/git-indicator ~/.git-indicator

If you don't have one yet, create a directory that will contain the repositories you want to monitor:

mkdir ~/monitored-repos
cd ~/monitored-repos
# You can clone a new repository into here,
git clone https://github.com/jquery/jquery
# You can move your repositories to be under here,
mv ~/projects/myawesomwapp ./
# Or you can just link them here, that works too.
ln -s ~/projects/myproject ./

To start git-indicator, run it from the monitored directory:

cd ~/monitored-repos
python ~/.git-indicator/git-indicator.py &

Haven't figured out yet how to run it automatically on startup. Should probably show different icons based on actions required.

Israel Tsadok. Code license - CC0.

Git Logo by Jason Long is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.