git-extras is a large collection of commands that extend Git with shortcuts and utilities for everyday repository work. The commands cover branch management, repository inspection, history manipulation, release tasks, automation, collaboration and operations that otherwise require several Git commands or shell pipelines.
The collection is particularly useful for developers who spend most of their time at the command line and want additional Git subcommands without adopting a separate Git client. Commands are invoked in the familiar git command form, so they fit naturally alongside Git’s built-in commands.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Provides a large collection of additional Git subcommands covering repository maintenance, history, branches, releases and collaboration.
- git abort and git continue provide convenient handling for interrupted Git operations.
- git browse opens the repository in a web browser, while git browse-ci opens its continuous integration page.
- git bulk performs operations across multiple Git repositories.
- Branch cleanup commands can remove merged, gone and squash-merged branches.
- git changelog generates changelogs from tags and commit messages.
- git coauthor adds a co-author to the most recent commit.
- git contrib and git authors provide information about contributors and their activity.
- git summary produces repository statistics including activity, commits, files and authors.
- git standup reports recent work by you or another contributor.
- git pr and git mr help check out GitHub pull requests and GitLab merge requests.
- git reauthor can rewrite history to change commit authorship.
- git rename-branch, git rename-file, git rename-tag and git rename-remote simplify common rename operations.
- git wip and git unwip provide shortcuts for temporarily recording and restoring work in progress.
- git undo removes the latest commit while preserving its changes.
Website: github.com/tj/git-extras
Support:
Developer: TJ Holowaychuk and various contributors
License: MIT License
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