Things I use to use git

new

new creates a new branch based on current (i.e., up-to-date) origin/master:

function new() {
    git fetch -q origin master
    git branch "${1:?}" origin/master
    git checkout "${1:?}"
}

master

master checks out current origin/master (as a detached head). (See also “Don’t checkout master locally”.)

function master() {
    git fetch -q origin master
    git checkout origin/master
}

stow/unstow

Like a branch-specific “stash”. I think many people initially assume git stash will behave kind of like this, but the stash is shared across all branches.

stow either saves your pending changes in a commit with message “stow”, or, if you’ve already stowed changes, ammends the stow commit with your new changes.

function stow() {
    if [[ $(git log -1 --format=%B) == "stowed" ]]; then
        git commit -a --amend --date=now --no-edit
    else
        git commit -a -m stowed
    fi
}

unstow undoes a stowed commit (by resetting to the commit before it):

function unstow() {
    if [[ $(git log -1 --format=%B) == stowed ]]; then
        git reset @^
    else
        echo "Nothing to unstow"
    fi
}

changes

What changes have been made from origin/master?

git config --global alias.changes 'diff origin/master...'

update

Rebase your commit(s) onto master:

git config --global alias.update "pull origin master --rebase"

save

This is kind of similar to stow. If you don’t currently have a change “in progress”, it creates a new commit. Otherwise, it just ammends the “in progress” commit. “In progress” is defined as “not an ancestor of origin/master”.

function save() {
    if git merge-base --is-ancestor HEAD origin/master; then
        git commit -va
    else
        git commit -va --amend --date=now --no-edit
    fi
}

TODO: Make this work better with branch pipeling.

branch-cleanup

Deletes any branches that have already been merged onto master, where “merged” means either that the branch has no delta from master, or that a commit equivalent to the branch’s latest is already on master:

function branch-cleanup() {
    git fetch --all --quiet
    for b in $(git for-each-ref refs/heads --format="%(refname:short)"); do
        if [[ ! $(git cherry -v origin/master "${b:?}" | grep "^+") ]]; then
            git branch -D "${b:?}"
        elif git diff --exit-code --quiet "origin/master...${b:?}"; then
            git branch -D "${b:?}"
        fi
    done
}

↩   February 25, 2020