mess

A cli tool to spot and clean up mess in your projects.

Features

• Find unfinished work
• Find outdated repositories
• Clean up temporary files

Installation

go install github.com/olzhasar/mess@latest

Commands

Git

Find all git repositories in the specified path. Mainly useful in pipelines

mess git <path>

Filter repositories with uncommitted changes

mess git <path> --dirty

Filter repositories with last commit older than specified number of days

mess git <path> --older <days>

Clean

Remove temporary files from the specified path

mess clean <path>

Deletes the following files and directories:

• *.pyc — Python compiled files
• __pycache__ — Python cache directory
• .mypy_cache — MyPy cache directory
• .pytest_cache — Pytest cache directory
• .ruff_cache — Ruff cache directory
• .tox — Tox virtual environment files
• .nox — Nox virtual environment files
• node_modules — Node.js dependencies

Performance

mess git is significantly faster for finding Git repositories compared to the find + test alternative:

find <path> -type d -execdir test -d {}/.git \; -prune -print

Scanning a 300GB+ home directory on an M1 Macbook Pro:

mess git ~  1.90s user 7.22s system 39% cpu 23.096 total
find ~ -type d -execdir test -d {}/.git \; -print -prune  60.76s user 184.72s system 70% cpu 5:46.94 total

mess did 15X better in this case.

License

MIT