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Show current branch, ahead/behind tracking, uncommitted changes, and recent branch history from reflog. Fills the situational awareness gap in detached HEAD workflows where git status only shows a commit hash.
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Problem
rig handles checkout, push, rebase, merge. But there's no way to
know where you are. In detached HEAD workflows,
git statusshows"HEAD detached at abc1234" with no branch context.
Solution
Add
rig status(rs). Shows current branch, ahead/behind tracking,uncommitted changes, and recent branch history from reflog.
Reuses existing
get_current_branchandrecenthelpers. No newdependencies. ~15 lines of bash for the function.
Terminal output
On a feature branch with uncommitted changes:
On a branch ahead of origin:
Changes
rig/rig: addcmd_status()function ands|status|rsdispatchrig/Makefile: addrssymlink to install/clean targetsrig/README.md: add status command to table and usage sectionFound this gap while installing and testing rig. The
get_current_branchhelper already walks reflog to find branchnames.
rsjust surfaces that info directly.This contribution was developed with AI assistance (Claude Code).