git-story

Various extensions to git, documented below.

• Installation
• Getting Started
• Example
• Configuration
• Documentation
  • Branching extensions
  • Convenience extensions
  • Log extensions
  • Project integration extensions
  • Statistics extensions
  • git-story interactions
  • Misc
• Notes
• License

Install git-story

curl -L http://bit.ly/1hHt20S | bash

The above command will install and inject an import of the git-story script to either .bash_profile, .bashrc or .zshrc (in that order). See install script for details.

Reload your shell to initialize git-story extensions.

Getting started

Branch model:

1. Start developing a feature, and name it git feature <name>
2. Save local changes and sync with remote git finish
3. Create a pull request

The principle is that you develop each new feature in its own branch and when you're done you push it and create a pull request. See GitHub flow branch model. Note that git feature and git finish are flexible. They both take an optional argument target-branch, which the current/new branch will sync with.

Example

$ git feature branch-name   # Sets up clean workspace based on remote master.
$ git finish              # Commit changes, updates current and local branch.

Output example (video).

Documentation

Print command usage:

$ git <git-story-extension> --usage

Branching extensions

• Start developing a feature

  $ git feature <branch-name> <target-branch>

  this will create a new branch branch-name based of master or specified target-branch. If the branch exists on remote pull the latest changes. Ensures the uniqueness of branch name at remote. Pushes the created branch to remote. Executes:

  1. Checkout target-branch
  2. Pull target-branch
  3. Create new branch branch-name
  4. Push branch-name

• Commit and sync with repository

  $ git finish <target-branch>

  commit the changes you've made and merge changes with target-branch. target-branch is optional and the default is target-branch. Executes:

  1. Prompt commit message if any uncommitted changes
  2. Pull current branch
  3. Pull target-branch
  4. Push current branch
  5. Perform local merge with target-branch if configured will exit and print conflicted files if any merge conflicts are found.

• git branch-status shows current branch status.

• git pull-branch pull current, or specified, branch's remote changes.
• git create-branch create and checkout a new branch and push to remote.
• git push-branch push the current branch to remote.
• git delete-branch delete branch from remote and local.
• git delete-merged delete all merged branches locally and at remote.

Convenience extensions

• git addcom add all files and commit.
• git fuckit commit all files and push current branch. Default is to prompt for commit message.
• git redo-commit redo last commit.
• git goto <branch-name> switches to branch branch-name if the working directory is clean.
• git abort-merge aborts current merge.
• git obliterate remove file from local repository and its entire history.
• git zip-project create zip-file of project.
• git ignore add and list patterns to local and global gitignore.
• git ignore-boilerplate easy access to gitignore boilerplates from github.com/github/gitignore.
• git conflicted list files with merge-conflicts.
• git todos list all TODOS and FIXMES.
• git tag-release create a new tagged release.
• git rename-tag rename an existing release.
• git changelog generate changelog from last tag.
• git squash-commits squash given number of commits together.

Log extensions

• git history view repository commit history.
• git trail shows the last common commit with current branch.
• git neck show commits until first branching point.
• git divergence show the difference between current branch and the same branch at remote.
• git local-commits show local commits that haven't been pushed to remote.
• git commits-since show commits since given time.

Project integration extensions

• git browse opens the repository on GitHub.
• git package package project, runs GS_PACKAGE.
• git deploy package project, runs GS_DEPLOY.
• git install-project install project, runs GS_INSTALL.
• git test package project, runs GS_PRE_COMMIT_HOOK.
• git tag-release tags release, runs GS_TAG_RELEASE.

Statistics extensions

• Show statistics for repository

  git stat <type>
  
  types:
    contrib <name> # shows statistics for all or specified author (alias: contributions)
    commits        # shows number of commits for each author
    weekdays       # prints statistics for number of commits per weekday
    hour           # prints statistics for number of commits per hour
    files          # prints number of files and lines
    diff           # Print stat of uncommitted changes
    log            # Print log with stat
    modified       # Print stat of most modified files
  

  prints statistics of given type.

• git churn count number of changes for each file.
• git effort like churn, but prettier and with active day count.
• git summary show summary for current project.

git-story interactions

• git gs-update gets the latest version of git-story.
• git gs-extend <extension-name> add new git-story extension to git.
• git gs list git-story extensions.

Misc

• git repl git read-eval-print-loop (REPL).

Configuration

Configure git-story by creating a file ~/.gitstoryrc For project specific configurations create a file named .gitstoryrc at the project's git root.

See full example with comments in docs/gitstoryrc-example.

Available options and their default value:

GS_DEFAULT_REMOTE='origin'          # Default remote for git story
GS_GIT_STORY_BRANCH='master'        # Target branch for 'feature' & 'finish'
GS_LOCAL_MERGE=false                # Perform local merge on 'finish'
GS_PRINT_CHECKLIST=false            # Print checklist before 'finish'
GS_GRAPHIC_PROMPT=false             # Show all prompts (on OSX) in a GUI dialog
GS_PROMPT_ON_DONE=false             # Prompt user before 'finish'
GS_TEST_ON_DONE=true                # Run test command before 'finish'
GS_SIGN_RELEASE=true                # Sign tags created with 'tag-release'
GS_SIGN_COMMITS=true                # Sign each commit created with addcom, with GPG-key
GS_SIGN_COMMITS_STRING=true         # Sign each commit created with addcom, with --signoff
GS_CHECKLIST_MESSAGE='...'          # Checklist string for 'finish'
GS_PRE_COMMIT_HOOK=''               # A command that runs all tests
GS_PACKAGE=''                       # Shell command for 'package'
GS_DEPLOY=''                        # Shell command for 'deploy'
GS_TAG_RELEASE=''                   # Shell command for 'tag-release'
GS_INTSALL=''                       # Shell command for 'install'
GS_HAS_GITHUB=true                  # Project has GitHub.
GS_PROJECT_URL=''                   # Project URL
GS_TEST_ON_AUTO_MERGE=true          # Run tests command on auto merge
GS_PRODUCTION_BRANCH='heads/master' # Integration branch for production
GS_NEXT_VERSION_BRANCH=''           # Integration branch for next
GS_EDGE_BRANCH=''                   # Integration branch for edge
GS_GIT_STORY_EXT_BRANCH='master'    # Target branch for git-story extension

Notes

• The software is supplied “as is” and all use is at your own risk (see license)
• git branch-status requires Ruby 1.8.7 or greater
• Tested on Linux/OSX/Windows using both zsh, bash and cygwin*, doesn't work with sh.
• Almost everything works with cygwin except:
  • git trail
  • git neck both neck and trail fails on git -p column
• Fork the repository and update the URL defined in setup/install to install and use your own version of git-story
• Thanks:
  • visionmedia/git-extras
  • cypher/dotfiles
  • simonwhitaker/gibo
• Uninstall git-story: rm -rf ~/.git-story

License

git-story is released under the MIT License.