Git Town provides additional Git commands for automating branch-based development workflows. It works with familiar approaches including Git Flow, GitHub Flow, GitLab Flow and trunk-based development while adding a consistent model for synchronising, stacking and shipping feature branches.
A major strength is that Git Town handles relationships between branches rather than treating each branch independently. This makes it useful for stacked changes, where one feature branch depends on another, while still supporting conventional standalone feature branches.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- git town hack creates a new feature branch from an up-to-date main branch.
- git town sync updates branches and cleans up work that has already shipped.
- git town switch provides a terminal interface for changing branches.
- git town propose creates a pull request or merge request for the current feature branch.
- Append and prepend commands insert branches at different positions in a stack.
- Combine merges two adjacent branches in a stack into a single branch.
- Detach removes a branch from its current stack relationship.
- Swap changes the ordering of adjacent branches in a stack.
- diff-parent shows changes introduced by a feature branch relative to its parent.
- Contribute, observe, park and prototype control how individual branches are synchronised and shared.
- continue and skip resume operations after conflicts or other interruptions.
- runlog records repository state around previous Git Town operations.
- undo can reverse the most recent Git Town operation.
- Configuration commands can redact sensitive configuration values by default.
- Works with pull-request hosting services while keeping normal Git repositories and branches underneath.
Website: github.com/git-town/git-town
Support:
Developer: Git Town creators
License: MIT License
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