Instrumental Git with Gittern

Gittern is bundle of Git extensions scripts written in shelljs, featuring to reduce daily routines verbosity when working with Git.

Install from NPM

sudo npm install -g gittern

Compatibility Test

• OSX 10.6 - tested
• Msysgit - tested

List of available commands

git br

Print the current working branch name.

git tr [branch]

Print the remote tracking branch of the current/specified branch.

git repo

Figure out the Git repository name of the current working copy.

git sync [branch]

Receive fast-forward changes from the remote tracking branch by rebasing local changes onto it.

git align

Discard any local changes made to align with the HEAD of remote tracking branch.

git close [branch]

Remove both the local and the remote tracking branch.

git each [pattern] [command]

Execute the command, in each of git repo (sub) directory that are matched by the specified pattern.

git submodule-setup

Automatically add all sub modules from your .gitmodules file in the working directory.

git url [ref]

Generate an URL of the Git web interface that points to the specified git ref/tag/branch.

git rolltag [ref]

This command is to navigate to the next sequential tag.

If the TIP of your current index reflects a tag name ends up with number, this command is to checkout the next tag name in sequential, say you're now on, e.g. yesterday(1) and has another tag called today(2), this command will checkout today(2) for you, and the next call will be expecting something like tomorrow(3) or whatever-3 basically any tag ends up with three.

It is to stop at the end of sequence if there are not more tags available.