Dura is a background process that watches your Git repositories

Seems like a nice tool, but if you really used git, I don't really see how this situation described at the readme.md could happen :-)

  you think you just lost days of work

Took me a while to realize this is derived from the word duraBILITY. At first I thought this was a russian word being used...

I love this. One of the biggest reasons people don't frequently commit their code is fear of "polluting" their feature branch. Automatically creating and pushing to backup branches is the best of both worlds.

This is an interesting concept. I'd think it would need some kind of system tray icon to be aware if it stops running, otherwise, it might provide a false sense of security and you could lose work because you thought you were safe but Dura actually crashed three days ago. It also probably needs some sort of automatic syncing to a remote repo, so it isn't affected by spilling your coffee on your laptop.

Along similar lines, I've adopted a hyper-frequent commit pattern in git. I do a bunch of meaningless micro-commits as I'm making progress, and then rewrite them all into one or two meanginful commits once I've reached a working state of whatever I was trying to do.

I find it's helpful for not losing work / easily backing up if as I'm going along I realize I want to change approach.

(For the micro commit I have a git command "git cam" that just commits all changes with the message "nt". Then once I'm ready to do a "real commit", I have "git wip" which rolls back all the nt commits but leaves them in checkout; then I can make one or two "real" commits.)

I wonder if dura would be even better, or if the commit frequency would end up being too fine-grained and obscure?