API call to get basic git info

[ejfine]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
I have git repos that define system configuration files on windows. I always like to check before we start a production run that all the PCs are set to the tip of the main branch.

Describe the solution you'd like
I would like to add an API route to glances that takes as inputs the working directory in which to run git, and then can run some basic query (non-mutating) commands like git rev-parse HEAD, git ls-remote origin main, git branch --show-current, git status --porcelain

Describe alternatives you've considered
I considered building my own tiny API server, but it seemed like it'd be easier to add on to glances...I don't think anything like this already exists in glances from what I've searched

Additional context
Happy to contribute to make this happen if you're open to a Pull Request for it

[nicolargo]

Hi @ejfine

it's a nice proposal but one question before going deeper in the pull request. Why don't you use a simple Glances AMP ?

[ejfine]

Interesting---I hadn't found those in the docs yet.

Those are just constantly polling though right? I'll have to think about if there'd be any appreciable impact of running git status on a very frequent basis

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