GitTrends VS posh-git

Thanks for the kind words!

I’ve also published an open-source iOS + Android app to the App Stores, called GitTrends that leverages my AsyncAwaitBestPractices library if anyone wants to see how to use it in a real/live production app!

The source code for GitTrends is available here: https://gittrends.com

On the bright side, I was able to push a new App Store release for my Xamarin.Forms app, GitTrends, which I couldn't do previously in VS for Mac 2022 Preview.

Here’s a couple open-source apps I’ve made that you can check out if you’re interested in how to use C# instead of XAML: - GitTrends - An open-source iOS and Android app built in Xamarin.Forms to monitor the Views, Clones and Star history of your GitHub repos - All UI is written in C# using the Xamarin.CommunityToolkit.Markup NuGet package - Also free to download from the iOS App Store and Google Play Store - HackerNews - An open-source .NET MAUI app for displaying the top posts on Hacker News that demonstrates text sentiment analysis of each headline gathered using artificial intelligence - All UI is written in C# using the CommunityToolkit.Maui.Markup NuGet Package

For example, here’s an open-source app I’ve published to the App Store, GitTrends, that doesn’t use any XAML.

Was GitTrends causing the trouble? I’d love to fix the bug if you found one!

I created an open-source app, GitTrends, that’s available for free on the iOS and Android app stores that could help.

PowerShell: https://github.com/dahlbyk/posh-git/blob/master/src/GitPromp...

I believe this is clean Bash code and clean PowerShell code, and a script with a certain complexity. The functions inside the Bash script are documented using comments, the ones inside the PowerShell script are documented using "structured comments" (similar to javadoc/xmldoc/...). The parameters of the functions inside the PowerShell script also contain metadata which is used to provide completion on the commandline and similar functionality as the command line flags you demonstrated.

I just learned about 'getopts' in Bash, which you can actually also use to implement parameters to a Bash function. So what you are showing on a script level, can also be applied for functions. Did not know about that.

Still, not saying PowerShell is better than Bash in a Linux context, but it seems a lot of Linux users have a gut reaction to right out reject PowerShell. I think it does have some advantages for certain use cases, like more complex scripts, a cross-platform context, ... and of course, for someone with a .NET background it's easier to program more complex things with it.

Starship is pretty slick, but I feel like it's lacking in the customization department. It's easy to get it to display whatever you want, but hard to get it to show it exactly how you want it. If you want a "powerline" style prompt, that's basically impossible in Starship (although it's one of the most upvoted feature requests). Or using color gradients on the prompt - I have this 16.7M color display, why am I limited to flat colors? Finally I'm a big fan of posh git, and Starship doesn't have the ability to display anything like this natively. I used a custom command to run a modified version of posh-git for a long time, but it wasn't very fast.

If you're on Windows, I've used posh-git in the past.

The Posh-Git module for showing Git repo details in the prompt.

Install Posh-Git using this command:

an autocompletion tool for your terminal, e.g. oh-my-zsh for the zsh shell or posh-git for PowerShell