dsh-update-radar

Linked local Git repos make for a clean plugin stack, but after a few weeks it is easy to lose track of which upstreams have pushed new commits and which of your copies are still stale. dsh-update-radar was built for exactly this: it walks every link: path listed in your profile dependencies, runs git rev-parse HEAD and git ls-remote origin HEAD on each directory that contains a .git folder, and reports which local checkouts are behind upstream in a single pass.

The whole workflow is one tool call to update_radar with no arguments—no plugin names to type, no repo URLs to remember. The plugin is strictly read-only: it only invokes rev-parse and ls-remote, never pulls, checks out, or writes to any repository. If a directory is missing a repo or the network hiccups, the corresponding field simply returns null without blocking the rest of the report. There are zero runtime dependencies, no custom session events, and no HTTP routes, so installation is instant and removal leaves no residue.

If you manage a dozen or more open-source plugins through local Git repos and would rather not cd into each one and compare hashes by hand, dsh-update-radar collapses the question of which link: plugins are up to date into a single no-argument call, freeing your attention for the code that actually needs your touch.