Print out repository status

[spitschan]

This is not an issue, but more a feature request. One thing that I would find useful would be to print out the status of the repositories when using a specific TbTb config. This would raise any uncommitted changes, and anything that needs to be resolved.

When there's no change, the default message from git status is:

On branch master
Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'.
nothing to commit, working directory clean

So perhaps whenever the output of git status is not that, print that in the MATLAB command window.

[benjamin-heasly]

I think this would be really handy 👍 .

I would also want to design the status reporting for other kinds of toolbox, in addition to Git. Here are the kinds of toolbox we have now: strategies. And we're planning to add SVN soon: #14 .

Status for SVN or Git seems straightforward. For others, like installed Matlab toolboxes, maybe the status reporting is unnecessary? A no-op?

I imagine the implementation could have a few parts:

• add a new api function like tbStatus(), which would take arguments similar to tbUse().
• add a method like status() for the TbToolboxStrategy abstract class. The default implementation could be a no-op.
• override the default status() method for subclasses where it makes sense, as with Git and SVN.