An upgrade of gitflow
Last week, I silently tagged gitflow 0.2. The most important changes since 0.1 are:
- Order of arguments changed to have a more “gitish” subcommand structure. For example, you now say:
git flow feature start myfeature
- Better initializer.
git flow initnow prompts interactively to set up a gitflow enabled repo. - Added a command to list all feature/release/hotfix/support branches, e.g.:
git flow feature list
- Made all merge/rebase operations failsafe, providing a non-destructive workflow in case of merge conflicts.
- Easy diff’ing of all changes on a specific (or the current) feature branch:
git flow feature diff [feature]
- Add support for feature branch rebasing:
git flow feature rebase
- Some subactions now take name prefixes as their arguments, for convenience. For example, if you have feature branches called “experimental”, “refactoring” and “feature-X”, you could say:
git flow feature finish ref
And gitflow will know you mean the “refactoring” feature branch.
These actions are:
finish,diffandrebase. - Much better overall sanity checking.
- Better portability (POSIX compliant code)
- Better (more portable) flag parsing using Kate Ward’s shFlags.
- Improved installer. To install
git flowas a first-class Git subcommand, simply type:sudo make install
- Major and minor bug fixes.
That’s all for now.
