git-toolbelt is a suite of useful Git commands that aid with scripting or every day command line usage.
This is free and open source software.
Commands provided:
- git-cleanup – deletes all branches that have already been merged into the main branch. Keeps other branches lying around. Removes branches both locally and in the origin remote. Will be most conservative with deletions.
- git-current-branch – returns the name of the current branch, if any.
- git-main-branch – returns the name of the default main branch for this repository.
- git-fixup – amend all local staged changes into the last commit.
- git-fixup-with – interactively lets you pick a commit to fixup with.
- git-active-branches – returns a list of local or remote branches, but contrary to Git’s default commands for this, returns them machine-processable. In the case of remote branches, can be asked to return only the branches in a specific remote.
- git-diff-since – shows the differences made on the current branch, compared to the main branch (or the given branch).
- git-local-branches – returns a list of local or remote branches, but contrary to Git’s default commands for this, returns them machine-processable. In the case of remote branches, can be asked to return only the branches in a specific remote.
- git-local-commits –
- git-merged / git-unmerged / git-merge-status – a trio of subcommands which make it easy to inspect merge status of local branches.
- git-branches-containing – eturns a list of branches which contain the specified ” (defaults to ‘HEAD’).
- git-recent-branches – returns a list of local or remote branches, but contrary to Git’s default commands for this, returns them machine-processable. In the case of remote branches, can be asked to return only the branches in a specific remote.
- git-remote-branches – returns a list of local or remote branches, but contrary to Git’s default commands for this, returns them machine-processable. In the case of remote branches, can be asked to return only the branches in a specific remote.
- git-remote-tracking-branch – print the name of the remote tracking branch of the current or given local branch name, if one exists. Errors otherwise.
- git-repo –
- git-root –
- git-initial-commit – prints the initial commit for the repo.
- git-sha – returns the SHA value for the specified object, or the current branch head, if nothing is provided.
- git-stage-all – mimics the index / staging area to match the working tree exactly. Adds files, removes files, etc.
- git-unstage-all – unstages everything. Leaves the working tree intact.
- git-update-all – updates all local branch heads to the remote’s equivalent.
- git-workon – convenience command for quickly switching to a branch
- git-modified – returns a list of locally modified files. In contrast to git status, it does not include any detailed file status, and never includes non-existing files.
- git-modified-since – like git-modified, but for printing a list of files that have been modified since master (or whatever commit specified). I
- git-separator – adds a commit with a message of only —‘s, so that it visually separates commits in the history
- git-spinoff – creates and checks out a new branch starting at and tracking the current branch. That branch in turn is reset to the last commit it shares with its upstream.
- git-wip – commits all local changes under a commit message of “WIP”.
- Statistics:
- git-committer-info – shows contribution stats for the given committer, like “most productive day”, “most productive hour”, “average commit size”, etc.
- Commands to help novices out:
- git-drop-local-changes – covers aborting rebases, undoing partial merges, resetting the index and removing any unknown local files from the work tree
- git-stash-everything – stashes everything what’s in your index, in your working tree, and even stashes away your untracked files, leaving a totally clean working tree.
- git-push-current – pushed the current branch out to origin, and makes sure to setup tracking of the remote branch.
- git-undo-commit – undo your last commit and you won’t lose any data.
- git-undo-merge – undo the last merge.
- Commands that simplify scripting. These commands typically only return exit codes and have no output:
- git-is-repo – helper function that determines whether the current directory has a Git repo associated to it.
- git-is-headless – tests if HEAD is pointing to a branch head, or is detached.
- git-has-local-changes / git-is-clean / git-is-dirty – helper function that determines whether there are local changes in the working tree, by returning a 0 (local changes) or 1 (no local changes) exit code.
- git-has-local-commits – returns a list of commits that are still in your local repo, but haven’t been pushed to origin
- git-contains / git is-ancestor – tests if X is merged into Y.:
- git-local-branch-exists.
- git-remote-branch-exists.
- git-tag-exists.
- Advanced usage:
- git-skip / git-unskip / git-show-skipped.
- git-commit-to – quickly commit a change to a different branch.
- git-cherry-pick-to – cherry-pick a commit to any branch, staying on the current branch.
- git-delouse – empties the last commit on the current branch and places all changes back into the working tree.
- git-shatter-by-file – splits the last commit into N+1 commits, where N is the number of files in the last commit.
- git-cleave – splits the last commit into 2 or more commits.
Website: github.com/nvie/git-toolbelt
Support:
Developer: Vincent Driessen
License: BSD 3-Clause “New” or “Revised” License
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