bugid

I keep most of my windows maximised, including the browser and the terminal. When I'm testing patches, I often have my browser open at a bug tracker. I like to test patches on a local branch named, say, bug156543, and obviously I also have to mention the bug number in the commit message. But I find it quite tricky to memorise arbitrary six-digit numbers, and it's a nuisance to keep switching windows to see the bug number. And of course it's impossible to automate this process.

Hence this program. It scans the titles of each open window and finds anything called "bug NNN", where NNN is a decimal number. It then prints the number. If there's more than one such, it separates them with spaces. If there are none, it prints none.

If you give it a single argument, it will replace %d wherever it occurs in that string with the relevant bug numbers.

Example of use:

$ git branch `bugid bug%d`

$ git commit -m "Added bouncy castle. Closes `bugid #%d`"

Well, it's useful to me, anyway, so I thought it might be useful to you.

meme from Fin and others

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