UseUGit

Updated Git: A powerful PowerShell wrapper for git that lets you extend git, automate multiple repos, and output git as objects.

What is ugit?

ugit is a PowerShell module that gives you an updated git. You can use the object pipeline to pipe folders or files into git.
If you're using one of a number of supported commands, ugit will return your git output as objects. This enables a lot of interesting scenarios, giving you and updated way to work with git.

Getting started

# Install ugit from the PowerShell Gallery
Install-Module ugit -Scope CurrentUser
# Then import it.
Import-Module ugit -Force -PassThru

# Once you've imported ugit, just run git commands normally.
# If ugit has an extension for the command, it will output as an object.
# These objects can be formatted by PowerShell
git log -n 5 

# To get a sense of what you can do, pipe a given git command into Get-Member.
git log -n 5 |
  Get-Member

How ugit works:

ugit only has a few commands:

Use-Git

After you've imported ugit, Use-Git is what will be called when you run "git".

This happens because Use-Git is aliased to "git", and aliases are resolved first in PowerShell.

Use-Git assumes all positional parameters are arguments to Git, and passes them on directly.

This works in almost every scenario, except with some single character git options. You can pass these in quotes.

When Use-Git outputs, it sets $global:LastGitOutput and then pipes to Out-Git.

Out-Git

Out-Git will attempt to take git output and return it as a useful object.

This object can then be extended and formatted by PowerShell's Extended Type System.

Out-Git accomplishes this with several extensions. You can list extensions with Get-UGitExtension:

Get-UGitExtension

Get-UGitExtension enables any file beneath ugit (or a module that tags ugit) named *.ugit.extension.ps1 to be treated as an extension.

In ugit, extensions signal that they apply to a given git command by adding a [ValidatePattern] attribute to the command.

If this pattern matches the given git command, the extension will run.

Get-UGitExtension is built using Piecemeal

ugit examples

ugit comes packed with many examples. You might want to try giving some of these a try.

Git.Branch Example 1

    git branch  # Get a list of branches

Git.Branch Example 2

    git branch |                                          # Get all branches
        Where-Object -Not IsCurrentBranch |               # where it is not the current branch
        Where-Object BranchName -NotIn 'main', 'master' | # and the name is not either main or master
        git branch -d                                     # then attempt to delete the branch.

Git.Checkout Example 1

    git checkout -b CreateNewBranch

Git.Checkout Example 2

    git checkout main

Git.Clone.Input Example 1

    git clone https://github.com/MDN/content.git # This is a big repo.  Progress bars will be very welcome.

Git.Clone Example 1

    git clone https://github.com/StartAutomating/ugit.git

Git.Clone Example 2

    # Clone a large repo.
    # When --progress is provided, Write-Progress will be called.
    git clone https://github.com/Azure/azure-quickstart-templates --progress

Git.Commit.Input Example 1

    git commit -Title "Fixing Something"

Git.Commit.Input Example 2

    git commit -Title "Changing Stuff" -Trailers @{"Co-Authored-By"="SOMEONE ELSE <[email protected]>"}

Git.Commit Example 1

    git commit -m "Updating #123"

Git.Commit Example 2

    $committedMessage = git commit -m "Committting Stuff" # Whoops, this commit had a typo
    $commitMessage.Amend("Committing stuff") # that's better

Git.FileName Example 1

    git diff --name-only

Git.FileOutput Example 1

    git archive -o My.zip

Git.Grep Example 1

    git grep '-i' example # look for all examples in the repository

Git.Help.All Example 1

    git help -a

Git.Help.All Example 2

    git help --all

Git.Init Example 1

    git init # Initialize the current directory as a repository

Git.Log.Input Example 1

    git log -CurrentBranch

Git.Log Example 1

    # Get all logs
    git log |
        # until the first merged pull request
        Where-Object -Not Merged

Git.Log Example 2

    # Get a single log entry
    git log -n 1 |
        # and see what the log object can do.
        Get-Member

Git.Log Example 3

    # Get all logs
    git log |
        # Group them by the author
        Group-Object GitUserEmail -NoElement |
        # sort them by count
        Sort-Object Count -Descending

Git.Log Example 4

    # Get all logs
    git log |
        # Group them by day of week
        Group-Object { $_.CommitDate.DayOfWeek } -NoElement

Git.Log Example 5

    # Get all logs
    git log |
        # where there is a pull request number
        Where-Object PullRequestNumber |
        # pick out the PullRequestNumber and CommitDate
        Select PullRequestNumber, CommitDate

Git.Log Example 6

    git log --merges

Git.Mv Example 1

    git mv .\OldName.txt .\NewName.txt

Git.Mv Example 2

    git mv .\OldName.txt .\NewName.txt --verbose

Git.Pull Example 1

    git pull

Git.Push Example 1

    git push

Git.RefLog Example 1

    git reflog

Git.Remote Example 1

    git remote

Git.Remote Example 2

    git remote | git remote get-url

Git.Remote Example 3

    git remote | git remote show

Git.Rm Example 1

    git rm .\FileIDontCareAbout.txt

Git.Shortlog Example 1

    git shortlog  # Get a shortlog

Git.Shortlog Example 2

    git shortlog --email # Get a shortlog with email information

Git.Shortlog Example 3

    git shortlog --summary # Get a shortlog summary

Git.Shortlog Example 4

    git shortlog --sumary --email # Get a shortlog summary, with email.

Git.Stash Example 1

    git stash list

Git.Status Example 1

    git status

Git.Status Example 2

    git status | Select-Object -ExpandProperty Untracked

Out-Git Extensions

Git Commands

Most extensions handle output from a single git command.

Additional Output Extensions

A few extensions handle output from any number of git commands, depending on the arguments.

Git.FileName

This applies to any git command that uses --name-only. It will attempt to return the name as a file, or as an object containing the name.

Git.FileOutput

This applies to an git command that uses the -o flag. It will attempt to locate any output specified by -o and return it as a file or directory.

Use-Git Extensions

ugit also allows you to extend the input for git.

GitHub Action