git-extras - great collection of utilities

git-extras is a large collection of really useful utilities for Git repositories.

The software is under active development.

git-extras is free and open source software.

Here’s the commands:

git alias – define, search and show aliases.
git archive-file – creates a zip archive of the current git repository
git authors – populates the file matching authors|contributors -i with the authors of commits, according to the number of commits per author.
git browse – opens the current git repository website in your default web browser.
git bulk – adds convenient support for operations that you want to execute on multiple git repositories.
git brv – pretty listing of branches sorted by the date of their last commit.
git changelog – generates a changelog from git tags (annotated or lightweight) and commit messages.
git clear – performs a hard reset and deletes all untracked files from the working directory, including those in .gitignore
git clear-soft – performs a hard reset and deletes all untracked files from the working directory, excluding those in .gitignore.
git coauthor – add a co-author to the last commit.
git commits-since – list commits since date (defaults to “last week”).
git contrib – output author’s contributions to a project.
git count – output commit count.
git cp – copy a file to another one keeping its history and allowing for merge conflicts handling.
git create-branch – create local branch with options to setup a remote tracking branch in origin and upstream.
git delete-branch – delete local and remote branch.
git delete-merged-branches – deletes branches that are listed in git branch –merged
git delete-submodule – deletes a submodule.
git delete-tag – delete local and remote tag.
git delta – lists files that differ from another branch.
git effort – displays “effort” statistics, currently just the number of commits per file, showing highlighting where the most activity is.
git extras – the main command.
git feature – create/Merge the given feature, refactor, bug or chore branch.
git force-clone – if the clone target directory exists and is a git repository, reset its contents to a clone of the remote.
git fork – fork the given GitHub repo. It’s similar to the clone command, but forks first.
git fresh-branch – create empty local branch.
git gh-pages – sets up the gh-pages branch.
git graft – merge commits from src-branch into dest-branch.
git guilt – calculate the change in blame between two revisions.
git ignore – displays currently ignored patterns in both your global and your local .gitignore files.
git ignore-io – generate sample gitignore file from gitignore.io.
git info – show information about the repo.
git local-commits – list all commits on the local branch that have not yet been sent to origin. Any additional arguments will be passed directly to git log.
git lock – lock a local file.
git locked – list local locked files.
git merge-into – merge src branch into dest, and keep yourself on current branch. If src branch not given, it will merge current one to dest.
git merge-repo – merges two repository histories.
git missing – print out which commits are on one branch or the other but not both.
git mr – checks out a merge request from GitLab.
git obliterate – completely remove a file from the repository, including past commits and tags.
git paste – sends commits to a pastebin site using pastebinit.
git pr – checks out a pull request from GitHub.
git psykorebase – rebase a branch on top of another using a merge commit and only one conflict handling.
git pull-request – create pull request via commandline.
git reauthor – rewrite history to change author’s identity.
git rebase-patch – given you have a patch that doesn’t apply to the current HEAD, but you know it applied to some commit in the past, git rebase-patch will help you find that commit and do a rebase.
git release – release commit with the given and other options
git rename-branch – rename a branch locally, and sync to remote via git push.
git rename-tag – rename a tag (locally and remotely).
git rename-remote – rename a git remote regardless of name conflict, and then list current git remotes.
git repl – run git commands without typing ‘git’.
git reset-file – reset one file to HEAD or certain commit.
git root – show the path to root directory of git repo.
git rscp – copy files from the current working tree to the working directory of a remote repository.
git scp – copy files from the current working tree to the working directory of a remote repository.
git sed – run grep as directed but replace the given files with the pattern.
git setup – set up a git repository (if one doesn’t exist), add all files, and make an initial commit.
git show-merged-branches – show all branches merged in to current HEAD.
git show-tree – show the decorated graph view of one liner summarized commits from all branches.
git show-unmerged-branches – show all branches not merged in to current HEAD.
git stamp – stamp the last commit message.
git squash – merge commits from src-branch into the current branch as a single commit.
git standup – recall what you did or find what someone else did in a given range of time.
git summary – outputs a repo summary.
git sync – sync local branch with its remote branch.
git touch – call touch on the given file, and add it to the current index. One-step creation of new files.
git undo – remove the latest commit.
git unlock – unlock a local file filename.
git utimes – change files modification time to their last commit date.

Website: github.com/tj/git-extras
Support:
Developer: TJ Holowaychuk and various contributors
License: MIT License

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