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Git can do everything—except make your coffee. But what if it could?

Like most people, I already have a dedicated coffee brewing device listening to HTCPCP requests. All that is left is to hook Git up to it.

The first step is to write the client code, using httpx:

>>> import httpx
>>> result = httpx.request("BREW", "http://localhost:1111/")
>>> result.text
'start'

Ah, nothing nicer than a coffee pot starting to brew. You need to do a few more steps to make this available to git.

A proper way to do it would be to put this in a package and use pipx to manage it. For now, install httpx into your user environment:

$ pip install --user httpx

Then put this code in a script:

#!/usr/bin/env python
# This script should be in ~/.bin/git-coffee
# Remember to chmod +x ~/.bin/git-coffee
import httpx

result = httpx.request("BREW", "http://10.0.1.22:1111/")

result.raise_for_status()
print(result.text)

Make sure that ~/.bin is in your path:

$ (echo $PATH | grep -q ~/.bin) ||

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