Various utilities to improve our workspace.

Workspace customizations based on the current git repository

This has been tested on Ubuntu 18.04 and macos 10.13, should work with python 2/3.

Python script to automatically customize the workspace based on the current git repository root path (credits to iterm2-ssh-color for iTerm2 tab coloring function).

Project motivation

I frequently find myself with 6+ projects (for me means git repositories) open concurrently, I created a couple of utilities to manage all this more easily.

Installing

Clone repository:

git clone https://github.com/meddario/workspace-utils.git ~/.workspace-utils

Add in ~/.bashrc:

# Workspace customizations based on the current git repository
export PROMPT_RUNNER_DIR=~/.workspace-utils
source $PROMPT_RUNNER_DIR/workspace-utils.sh
export PROMPT_COMMAND="$PROMPT_COMMAND;customizeWorkspace"

Example configuration

Add to $HOME/.workspace-utils.json (customizations must be explicitly enabled):

{
  "customize_workspace": {
    "update_vscode_peacock_config": true,
    "update_iterm_tab_color": true
  }
}

Available customizations

• update_vscode_peacock_config: requires vscode Peacock extension, automatically sets the peacock color in the .vscode/settings.json.
• update_iterm_tab_color: updates the current iTerm tab color to the repo color.

Example results

update_vscode_peacock_config:

update_iterm_tab_color: