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 Displays a brief summary for multiple git work directories.
 
+Useful for quickly checking if everything local has been committed.
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 ## Usage
 
-```
+``` bash
 $ git-overview -a ~/Projects
 Workdir              Branch     Status     
 \033[93mnoted                main       changed     [1M]\03[0m