git-start-branch

Usage: git start-branch branch

• Creates a new branch
• Alias for git checkout -b branch

Designed to be a complement to the previously-coded git-finish-branch

git-finish-branch

Usage: git finish-branch branch [tag]

• Merges a branch into the master branch (with no-ff)
• Tags the merge with either the passed tag or the date in the form MMDDYYYY
• If you specify the tag, and the tag exists, it will fail
• If you don't specify the tag, and the tag exists, it appends a number, e.g. 04012010-1 or 04012010-2
• Pushes the changes to the origin repository
• Deletes the branch

Designed to finish up a local topic/feature branch

git-pull-branch

Usage: git pull-branch <branchname>

• Pulls the <branchname> branch from origin and tracks it

A simple shortcut to get a remote branch from the server.

git-push-branch

Usage: git push-branch <branchname>

• Pushes the <branchname> branch to origin
• Tracks the branch so git pull origin will also pull this branch

A simple shortcut to get a local branch on a server without having to execute three different commands

git-merge-branch

Usage: git merge-branch <branchname>

• Merges a branch into the master branch (with no-ff)
• Tags the merge with either the passed tag or the date in the form MMDDYYYY
• If you specify the tag, and the tag exists, it will fail
• If you don't specify the tag, and the tag exists, it appends a number, e.g. 04012010-1 or 04012010-2
• Pushes the changes to the origin repository

Similar to finish-branch without deleting the branch. Designed to merge a remote (long lasting) branch

git-move-commits

Usage: git move-commits <num-commits> <correct-branch>

• Moves the last num-commits commits to correct-branch
• If correct-branch doesn't exist, the script creates it
• if correct-branch does exist, the script merges the commits

If you commit to the wrong branch (especially master), this script will fix that for you.

git-branch-from

Usage: git branch-from <commit-reference> <new-branch-name>

If you made several commits to a branch (especially master), and in retrospect, you really should have been doing that on a new branch, this will create a new branch from the commit-reference and reset current branch to the commit-reference.

git-export

Usage: git export <commit-reference> [<filename>]

Exports a tar-gzipped archive of the commit-reference. If <filename> is omitted, the archive is saved as <commit-reference>.tar.gz.

git-status-u

Usage: git status-u

• Git emulation of the Subversion command svn status -u

If you want to know what is going to be updated when you pull in a remote repository, this will show you.

linkscripts

Usage: linkscripts

Simply creates a symbolic link for any script starting with git- in this directory to /usr/local/bin.

This is handy so you can easily update the scripts in a repository, and have them located elsewhere, but still make them seen by git.