Update: it’s TermaGITchi now.
Two people in this thread got there independently, so the credit is split. @gankouskhan@bookwyr.me landed on TomaGITchi first, and it’s still the highest-voted comment here by a distance. @MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip then arrived at TermaGITchi on their own, and that’s the one I took - same joke, a good deal further from a trademark that still has lawyers, and it reads better out loud.
parallel-harness-pets described the mechanism. “Parallel harness” was always my jargon rather than anybody else’s; yours describes what the thing actually feels like to use.
Nothing breaks. The old link redirects, the command is still pets, and Homebrew migrates existing installs on its own.
https://github.com/TevvvB/termagitchi
While I’m here: @Sidhean@piefed.social wrote the best description of it that exists, mine included - “a clever way of incentivising your own good behavior”. I built the mood tracking to tell worktrees apart, and only noticed afterwards that I’d started pushing branches so a small ASCII animal would cheer up.
For the record this was the OG one but worried about trademarks so I went with the Terma version