Bash Git Fetch Automation

This repository contains src_bashrc, a Bash profile script that prepares a hybrid Windows/MSYS2 development environment and orchestrates background git fetch status checks for every repository inside a designated projects directory.

Features

• Environment bootstrapping – Normalizes PATH and PKG_CONFIG_PATH entries, exports a compact prompt history (PROMPT_DIRTRIM), and defines colorful ANSI helpers for later output.
• Cross-platform Node.js helpers – Switches between direct node.exe execution and winpty-wrapped binaries when available, while providing npm, npx, and supabase convenience aliases.
• Python runtime toggle – Detects whether to use Windows Store Python, MSYS2/MinGW Python, or the native Unix runtime and lets you flip the selection by writing to .disable_win_py.
• Workspace-aware defaults – Resolves the working tree root from $PROJECTS_ROOT (falling back to ~/Desktop/projects), ensures the directory exists, and avoids re-running fetches when .disable_fetch is set to 1.
• Automated git status dashboard – Iterates through every Git repository underneath the projects directory, runs git fetch --all --prune, and summarizes new commits, upstream drift, unstaged changes, stashes, and newly discovered remote branches.
• Interactive controls – Provides reload for re-sourcing the profile, status for inspecting the latest aggregated results, and graceful cancellation with Ctrl+C via signal traps.

Getting started

1. Clone the repository somewhere persistent, for example:

   git clone https://example.com/bashrc_gitfetch.git
   cd bashrc_gitfetch

2. Backup and remove any existing Bash profile in your home directory so you can switch to the tracked version:

   [ -f "$HOME/.bashrc" ] && mv "$HOME/.bashrc" "$HOME/.bashrc.backup"
   rm -f "$HOME/.bashrc"

3. Symlink the repository-managed script into place. Future git pull updates will immediately apply to new shells:

   ln -s "$(pwd)/src_bashrc" "$HOME/.bashrc"

4. Source the profile (or open a new terminal) to load the configuration:

   source "$HOME/.bashrc"

5. Optional: set a custom projects directory before launching the shell session.

   export PROJECTS_ROOT="$HOME/code"

On start-up the script prints internet/Python diagnostics, then begins fetching repositories in the background while emitting a tree-formatted summary to "$PROJECTS_ROOT"/.status.

Usage tips

• Toggle Python mode by writing 0 (Windows Store) or 1 (MSYS2/MinGW) to .disable_win_py, then restart your shell.
• Temporarily pause background fetches by writing 1 to .disable_fetch.
• Inspect previous results at any time via the status alias or by opening .status directly.
• Customize ANSI colors, aliases, and PATH additions to suit your environment.

Requirements

• Bash 4+
• Git
• Optional: winpty, attrib, and MSYS2/MinGW toolchains when running on Windows.