It would be nice to be able to point mgitstatus at nonstandard git repos.

My personal use-case is the yadm dotfile manager https://github.com/TheLocehiliosan/yadm, which is uses a distinct path. Typically we'd just interact with that repo via yadm <git-sub-command>..., but we can also do something like GIT_DIR=~/.yadm/git.repo git status to run plain git commands against it.

I'm not sure what's best in terms of syntax/implementation (I can imagine a few different ways...) but a fairly simple idea is a flag to specify one -name to the find command. For example, I can use something like this to match all of the git repositories mgitstatus finds, plus the yadm repo I mentioned: find -L . -maxdepth 3 -type d -name "*.git" (I had to adjust the maxdepth up 1, though, since that's matching deeper in the tree).