mgit --watch

[pjasiun]

Since I always forget to change mgit.json/package.json while I develop and whenever I ask someone to check my branch I need to give him the whole list of branches I realized that the mgit --watch tool would be very useful. It would watch all subbranches and whenever branch changes its saves it to the mgit.json or package.json (see #29).

[Reinmar]

I'm not sure this is actually feasible. Unless there's some file in .git/ that we can watch with the fs watcher.

Other than that, it's an interesting feature request. Although, I'm afraid that it wouldn't be very popular and requiring one to launch mgit --watch would be annoying. You can forget doing this too.

[Reinmar]

Alternatively, mgit could install some git hook in the child repositories, so whenever you checkout something there, it updates the parent project. This would be more convenient.

[pjasiun]

I'm not sure this is actually feasible. Unless there's some file in .git/ that we can watch with the fs watcher.

> cat .git/HEAD
ref: refs/heads/master
> cat .git/refs/heads/master
55e1fbe0cd4ebacf55026c6d18801044cb313ba4

Tadam!

[pjasiun]

Alternatively, mgit could install some git hook in the child repositories, so whenever you checkout something there, it updates the parent project. This would be more convenient.

Sounds cool too.

Although, I'm afraid that it wouldn't be very popular and requiring one to launch mgit --watch would be annoying. You can forget doing this too.

Well, on the other hand, it's nice that you can enable it whenever you want, but if you do not need it you can turn it off and no one is chaning your *.json files.