git release

Create release candidate branches with ease! :)

Original Motivation: http://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/

Under the hood git release uses the git config system to store lists of branches, and creates release files that store the branch list for you.

Install:

• Checkout Repo
• cp /path/to/repo/git-release /local/path/dir/ (Copy the git-release executable to a PATH dir, so you can use it globally)
• OSX - copy to ~/bin which automatically adds to PATH, open a new terminal window.

Quick Start:

Most Common Process: Initialize release, add features, then create a the release by merging all branches in.

• cd /to/repo
• git release init v0.0.0 0
• git release feature [partial branch name]
• git release roll

List of Commands:

• git release init [version] [candidate] to configure release versions
• git release add [full remote branch path] to add feature branches into the list to release
• git release feature [branch search string] to search for and add feature branches into the list to release
• git release deploystatus to output the status of the release and the branches and the respective commit hash for each
• git release remove [full remote branch path] to remove feature branches from the list
• git release status to see what version you are on and the branches added
• git release roll to roll out a new release candidate branch, which:
• Creates a new branch based on release versioning, incrementing the RC
• Commits the Branch list to the new branch
• Merges in each of the added feature branches
• git release append similar to roll, but doesn't create a new release branch, simple remerges all branches into the current RC
• git release next similar to roll, but uses current release branch as the base branch, instead of master
• git release deploy checkout master, and merge in release branch and tag commit with release tag.
• git release dump deletes release branch and rollsback the candidate version.
• git release checkout displays a list of release branches, allows for switching from release to release
• git release devbranches to list out branches that are contained in the development branch, that are not yet on master
• git release checkoutfeature to find and create local branch from remote feature branch