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Looking at some of those 'complex' management tasks it seems like a missing feature would be to poll your repositories to look for TODO: 's and list them.

For instance, I'm the sole developer of my web backend, iOS and android platformy thing and while android studio has good TODO: Integration sublime and Xcode require plugins, it would be awesome to have something that looks at all three repositories and tells me where i have scribbled a TODO: somewhere; or even just for comparing the different method names of my app across platforms -

Perhaps someone knows of some such tool already out there that does this?

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Might not work for your development needs, but such a feature exists in PHPStorm/Webstorm, and I'm guessing probably all of the other IntelliJ products.

There is a 'TODO' tab that shows you all 'TODO's in your project directory. Like so: http://i.imgur.com/TW4jXN8.png

Yes, that's exactly what android studio has (to my understanding it's just a modified IntelliJ environment). But I want one that knows about all three Of my repositories (all of them relating to the same project). A global IDE, if you will. Or at least a global coordinator

Atom has a package like that, it finds TODO in your code and returns that line in a list. You could open a folder containing the other repos in Atom and achieve that.

What does grep or a couple lines of Perl with a clever-ish Regex not do that you need them to, for the TODO finding thing?

Ideally I would have an application that knows that my three repositories are part of the same project, and can display all the TODOs across them. Bonus points for opening Xcode or android studio or sublime to the correct file for editing.

Also, whilst I could do it on the command line, or can do it in each particular development environment (with the right plugins), I want some global overview of the whole shebang

Gah. I would love having this.

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