datalad
FOI: gitstatusd?
During today's datalad office hours @mih was seduced by the beauty of the https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k/ . While trying it out I saw that the thing installed some binary
❯ ls -ld .cache/gitstatus/gitstatusd-linux-x86_64
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2127032 Feb 14 2022 .cache/gitstatus/gitstatusd-linux-x86_64
so I have searched it into https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k/blob/f217e4a39a284f6db7be7a4cfde8647085f97865/gitstatus/README.md
gitstatus is a 10x faster alternative to git status and git describe. Its primary use case is to enable fast git prompt in interactive shells. ... Why fast Since gitstatusd doesn't have to print all staged/unstaged/untracked files but only report whether there are any, it can terminate repository scan early. It can also remember which files were dirty on the previous run and check them first on the next run to avoid the scan entirely if the files are still dirty. ...
not yet sure if some approach like this would be good for datalad, BUT who knows, especially if it could be centralized/reused with p10k etc.
