I haven’t been writing much in English about technical stuff, so I am going to start this blog with a series of articles that introduce some of my little works.

I picked git-info(1) to begin with, which is a small shell script that provides Git with a similar functionality to “svn info“.  As a long time user of Subversion who was new to Git I really missed a handy command to see repository information at a glance, so I wrote this.

knu’s git-info at master – GitHub

A sample output (at the time of writing) is as follows.

% git info
Repository Path: /home/knu/src/github/git-info/.git
Path: /home/knu/src/github/git-info
Remote Repositories:
    origin  git@github.com:knu/git-info.git (fetch)
    origin  git@github.com:knu/git-info.git (push)
Remote Branches:
      origin/HEAD -> origin/master
      origin/master
Local Branches:
    * master
Repository Configuration:
    [core]
        repositoryformatversion = 0
        filemode = true
        bare = false
        logallrefupdates = true
    [remote "origin"]
        fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
        url = git@github.com:knu/git-info.git
    [branch "master"]
        remote = origin
        merge = refs/heads/master
Last Changed Commit ID: da32fa59f7fab84606ce3c144e636043e96d8063
Last Changed Author: Akinori MUSHA
Last Changed Date: Tue Jul 28 10:37:09 2009 +0900
Last Changed Log:
    Take the directory as a physical path.

Hope this helps you on your way.