David Letterman often asks: Is this anything? And now I ask you.

• Newer MacBook Pros and MacBook Airs can detect trackpad gestures (three finger swipe up, down, left, right).
• A new preference pane called MultiClutch makes it easy to call key commands when gestures occur.
• ThisService turns command line scripts into services with key commands.

The end result?

• Swipe up to git push
• Swipe down to git pull
• Swipe left to see git status
• Others are also possible!

Easy setup

Download my pre-packaged services and drop in Library/Services (local or systemwide…your choice).

Download MultiClutch and set commands for multitouch gestures that call the services.

You can try it at home!

Use ThisService to make a service that calls any shell script or even a Ruby script (start autotest, run rake, etc.).

I used a simple shell script that echoes a command to the Terminal.

#!/bin/sh
        echo "git pull"

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See the PeepCode Git Screencast to learn how to use Git.