wip.rs

This is a daemon that watches file changes and creates wip commits (by calling git wip). It is either run as a systemd daemon in the background with wipd --systemd or in the foreground with wipd.

I decided to prototype in shell script. You need git-wip installed.

The shell script prototype

You are supposed to add the ./bin directory from this repo to your $PATH, and then add $(wip-prompt) to your shell prompt.

Run wipd to run wipd in the foreground.

Or, run wipd --systemd to run in background as a systemd user service (It will add a service file to ~/.config/systemd/user if none exists. To stop it, run systemctl --user stop wipd@<current_directory>).

Or put wip --systemd in your .envrc to run wipd automatically in direnv, whenever your cd into the directory.

Then edit files, and check out git log refs/wip/main.

To list all wipd instances run wip-list, and to stop them, run wip-stop.

Current progress

There's a rough roadmap tracked in todo.md, and some ideas in the notes directory.

But anyway I am already using the prototype: Zed can't run commands on save (in my case, git wip), and on the issue they actually suggested a daemon just like this (I indeed am currently just running inotifywait under the hood).

About the .rs thing

There will eventually be a pure Rust reimplementation of the whole thing, replacing the shell script prototype and the git wip dependency (which is also written in shell script).

Or at least that's the plan.

Testing

To test it do

just test