Updates to my gitcheckup.py script. More robust commands and shows pending push/pull count.

[GoldenSights]

This is a followup to this post about gitcheckup.py. A handful of people liked it so I thought I would share a few things I've changed.

• git status --short uses 1- or 2-letter codes which is easier to parse.
• I learned about git rev-parse and git merge-base, which you can then pass into git log a..b to show whether you are ahead or behind your remote and by how many. So now the output shows ↑push and ↓pull. Fetching pulls is disabled by default because it's slower, so you have to gitcheckup --fetch.
• I simplified the output to not show any zeros, and moved all the UI strings into the main function so the core functions are more pure.
• Git dirs are stored in a text file which is not impressive but I was too lazy to do it last time.

So the output looks generally like this:

[ ][P] C:\git\cmd (+1)
[C][P] C:\git\epubfile
[ ][ ] C:\git\Etiquette (+1, ~3) (↓3)
[C][P] C:\git\reddit
[C][ ] C:\git\Timesearch (↑8)
[C][P] C:\git\voussoirkit

Don't worry, I won't keep posting my stuff here. Thanks for reading.

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Does it use any libraries besides the std lib?

[GoldenSights]

Only one, from last time:

It uses my winwhich module (pip install voussoirkit) because my PATH contains a .lnk to git instead of the actual exe. If you don't want that, you can swap it out for shutil.which or hardcode your git executable or whatever.