Check it out, before you checkout.

Check It Out lets you interactively see and choose what branch you want to check out without the hassle of trying to type out a long or confusing branch name. Checking out branches just got even simpler!

• Requirements
• Compatibility
• Installation
  • Installing from source
• Local development
• Usage
• Features
• Settings
• Contributing
• Contributors
  • Acknowledgements
  • License

Requirements

Node >= v16 - note: developed and tested on Node 16 and up. There isn't a guarantee this will work on earlier versions.

Git - Required for core features

Compatibility

Check It Out currently has known issues with Windows. Some users have reported it working while others have reported that it does not. It is built and tested mostly in an Arch Linux environment with some user testing on MacOS and other Linux distributions. We're currently looking for help figuring out why Check It Out is unstable on Windows. See CIO-128

Installation

We're on NPM!

npm install -g check-it-out

Installing from source

Fork or clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/jwu910/check-it-out.git

Navigate to your repository directory and run

npm install

Create a symbolic link to the entry point

In the repository directory run:

npm link

Local development

From your repository directory run

npm run build

To start the application you can run

node dist/index.js

or

npm start

If you want to test your local build in other repositories, you can use npm link which will let you run your local build files with the cio or checkit aliases.

Usage

To get started, just run:

checkit

or

cio

Features

See a git log for the highlighted ref by pressing SPACE

| Commands | Description | | ---------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------- | | j/k, ▼/▲ | Navigate the list | | h/l, ◄/► | Previous/Next remote | | Ctrl+r | Refresh list with a fetch and prune | | enter | Select highlighted item | | y | Copy highlighted item | | space | Git log | | & | Filter lines - enter blank search to show all lines | | / | Search Lines | | n | Jump to next search result | | N | Jump to previous search result | | q, Ctrl+c, esc | Quit |

Settings

Git log argument validation is planned, but not finished. Currently, if the git log fails, space should not crash the app, but the process should not spawn at all.

Configurable settings can be found at ~/.config/configstore/check-it-out.json

Options include:

• gitLogArguments
  • Type: Array
  • Default: ['--color=always', '--pretty=format:%C(yellow)%h %Creset%s%Cblue [%cn] %Cred%d ']
  • Array of strings of valid git log arguments.
• sort
  • Type: String
  • Default: -committerdate
  • Sort references by latest commit date. Value must be a valid sort key or Check It Out will break on start.
• themeColor
  • Type: String
  • Default: #FFA66D
  • A hex color code to style Check It Out

To reset Check It Out to its original configurations listed above, start with the flag --reset-config:

cio --reset-config

Contributing

Please refer to the Contributing Guidelines before contributing.

See the rest of our issues

Contributors

This project wouldn't have been possible with the help so many contributors both in and out of the source code. I look forward to working with you as this project continues to evolve and improve.

Acknowledgements

@drewbrokke was the initial spark that inspired the creation of this project and encouraged me to let me curiosity drive this forward. @kiend gave me the inspiration and motivation to finish this project after letting it sit for so long. Check This Out. Thank you both for the encouragement and support through my career.

Logo Design by @arasatasaygin @openlogos

License

MIT @ Joshua Wu