feature request!
:)

I want to add a change log for my project mongoskin.

What I got from git changelog is latest commit since last tag v0.1.1, can I generate all the change log ?

\nn.n.n / 2011-04-30 \n==================\n
  * add mongoskin.router
  * more document

currently if you forget $2 you will merge into master, IMO this is not ideal

Just a note, MANPATH already has a meaning in unix shells. If a user wants to add a random directory to being search by man, they add it to MANPATH. For example, in my environment, I have $MANPATH defined to

/usr/share/man:/usr/local/share/man:/Users/wlynch/Homebrew/share/man:/opt/local/man:/Library/TeX/Distributions/.DefaultTeX/Contents/Man:/usr/X11/share/man

Because you use:

MANPATH ?= ${PREFIX}/man

the Makefile will pick up my environment variable instead of using the PREFIX style one. The fix that I used was I renamed MANPATH to MANPREFIX.

Thanks!

I think that would be good if you guys use DocumentUp to help on your documentation, http://documentup.com/visionmedia/git-extras

It's already looking good, if you only add this on the beginning of the README will help some people that doesn't know this tool.

git count

shift: 3: can't shift that many

I use git-graft often (which I wrote). Ironically, I always forget that it requires a second parameter. I think it would fit the git toolsuite if it defaulted to the current branch.

Current Usage:

$ git graft feature/x 
# merge --no-ff's feature/x into master, then deletes feature/x 

New Usage:

$ git graft feature/x
# merge --no-ff's feature/x into current branch, then deletes feature/x 

And (optionally):

$ git graft feature/x develop
# merge --no-ff's feature/x into develop, then deletes feature/x 

Thoughts?

"460" is fine but not that nice, maybe had a flag, not sure which for default yet but that could easily be something nicer like "2 months" "2 years" blah blah

I expect most release tags are created with -a.

An example from the Mocha Readme.md, FARKAS and Ryunosuke's names are improperly padded:

project: mocha
commits: 502
files  : 86
authors: 
  352   Tj Holowaychuk          70.1%
   98   TJ Holowaychuk          19.5%
   21   Guillermo Rauch         4.2%
    6   James Carr              1.2%
    4   Joshua Krall            0.8%
    3   Ben Lindsey             0.6%
    3   Nathan Rajlich          0.6%
    2   FARKAS Máté           0.4%
    2   Quang Van               0.4%
    1   Steve Mason             0.2%
    1   Yuest Wang              0.2%
    1   hokaccha                0.2%
    1   David Henderson         0.2%
    1   Fedor Indutny           0.2%
    1   Fredrik Lindin          0.2%
    1   Harry Brundage          0.2%
    1   Konstantin Käfer      0.2%
    1   Maciej Małecki         0.2%
    1   Raynos                  0.2%
    1   Ryunosuke SATO          0.2%

construct changelog from the last tag, open in $EDITOR

I found this a nice addition on this site
http://inquirylabs.com/blog2009/2008/06/12/git-info-kinda-like-svn-info/
I never used svn extensively therefore I never encountered a need to have a plugin like this, but it might be handy for people from an SVN background.

Something along this path:
http://pitupepito.homelinux.org/?p=24

It would be better that the command git gh-pages removes only files committed, this will prevent a big lost of files and time of work.

FYI TJ, your one liner broke when GitHub switched their url structure:

$ curl https://github.com/visionmedia/git-extras/raw/master/bin/git-extras | INSTALL=y sh

Its works with the new structure though:

$ curl https://raw.github.com/visionmedia/git-extras/master/bin/git-extras | INSTALL=y sh

Something I miss are man pages for each of the available git-extra commands. I kinda would like to check everything via the command line and not have to go to the github page.

Would it be possible to make Bash completion aware of git-extras, allowing for commands like git-graft to recognize available branches?

It seems to me there's no simple way to do this - but my bash_completion.d fu is weak, so perhaps there's a solution after all?

Bro make a screencast!

to add patterns quickly to .gitignore

If some one has configured zsh completion please provide.

bad things can happen if you're not careful :) we should show a list of descriptions etc

Would it be possible to drop the git commit step from git-release? Or make it optional at the least?
It's very frustrating to try to release only to fail because there's nothing to commit, so then you need to make some nonsensical change just to be able to run the command. And TBH, why would you EVER want to release anything that hasn't been committed already? That's just asking for trouble.

The installation one-liner in the README uses the http protocol which doesn't seem to work anymore:

$ curl http://github.com/visionmedia/git-extras/raw/master/bin/git-update-extras | sh

Using https instead did work though.

$ curl https://github.com/visionmedia/git-extras/raw/master/bin/git-update-extras | sh

Hey,

I just run the one-line installer (curl https://raw.github.com/visionmedia/git-extras/master/bin/git-extras | INSTALL=y sh) and I got this error: mkdir: /etc/bash_completion.d: Permission denied, even with sudo.

nebiros@Thurizas ~ $ sudo curl https://raw.github.com/visionmedia/git-extras/master/bin/git-extras | INSTALL=y sh
...
mkdir: /etc/bash_completion.d: Permission denied
make: *** [install] Error 1
...

right now there's a bit much space, pad with gray dots

I had a few merge failures when i git squashed my branch into master. I excepted it to leave the commit unmerged and let me merge and then push it myself. But in this case it just pushed broken code to the master with all the conflict markers.

It could be fixed by just checking the git merge result

Perhaps this code....

if [ $CODE -eq 0 ];then
echo "Merge Failed. Please fix it and do a git commit"
exit $CODE
fi

hi, git changelog hangs on my system. it returns nothing nor create any files.

git changelog --list works ok, though.

best, danielzzz

Hi TJ
Thks for the great tool
I noticed the other day that git feature finish does not check that you have committed all your changes before deleting the branch
I managed to restored the deleted branch but I think it could be useful to cancel action if not all changes have been committed

While working on a feature branch, I often come across and fix various minor issues (e.g. code readability). Ideally such commits should live on a separate branch to avoid obscuring feature changes.

Based on IRC conversations (#git on FreeNode), here's what I came up with (tentatively called git-flick, for lack of inspiration):

#!/usr/bin/env bash

set -e
set -x

treeish=${1:?}
target_branch=${2:?}

git checkout "$target_branch"
git cherry-pick "$treeish"
# return to original branch
git checkout @{-1}
# remove commit from original branch
# NB: rebase shortens treeish to seven characters; rebasing from commit's parent
GIT_EDITOR="grep -v ${treeish:0:7}" git rebase -p -i "${treeish}^"

(This is not extensively tested yet.)

If this is deemed of general interest, I could submit a pull request.

I just installed using brew ('brew install git-extras') but only a subset of the commands were actually installed:

$ ls -l /usr/local/Cellar/git-extras/0.0.1/bin
total 32
-r-xr-xr-x 1 mason wheel 509 Sep 13 12:06 git-changelog
-r-xr-xr-x 1 mason wheel 160 Sep 13 12:06 git-count
-r-xr-xr-x 1 mason wheel 182 Sep 13 12:06 git-ignore
-r-xr-xr-x 1 mason wheel 232 Sep 13 12:06 git-release

Perhaps the HEAD is incomplete right now? Here's the output from the installation:

$ brew install git-extras
/usr/local/bin/git
==> Cloning git://github.com/visionmedia/git-extras.git
Cloning into /Users/mason/Library/Caches/Homebrew/git-extras--git...
remote: Counting objects: 254, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (119/119), done.
remote: Total 254 (delta 134), reused 240 (delta 128)
Receiving objects: 100% (254/254), 27.28 KiB, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (134/134), done.
==> Checking out tag 0.0.1
==> make install
/usr/local/Cellar/git-extras/0.0.1: 5 files, 20K, built in 2 seconds

When you want to delete an unmerged branch in Git you need to pass on the -D argument. This does not work with git-delete-branch , and the command fails on the local part (still nukes the remote branch)

awk it up, --size? i dont know

I have packaged the git-extras utilities into one deb-file and I'll make it accesible from https://edge.launchpad.net/~frandieguez/+archive/mabishu when I solve some problems with the Makefile
There are some points that needs improvement:

• insert all the authors with mails
• improve the Makefile to support deb packaging
• create manpages for all commands.

If you run git ignore '*.o', and there are .o files in the current directory, then git-ignore will add each of those files individually to .gitignore instead of adding the wildcard. Thus, any new .o files, and any .o files in subdirectories, won't be ignored. That's the behavior we should expect without quotes around the argument, git ignore *.o, in which case the shell does the expansion, not the script.

compute (per author?) the amount of effort (time) put in to a project. make some guesses based on first/last commit to the project each active day, or something similar to this, maybe there's a nice algo out there

how can i remove git-extras?

if --above is 20, 20 commits should be gray

It looks like it's outputting something as there's blank lines between the top and bottom headers. Perhaps you're setting the colors in a Mac specific way? Be happy to do some debugging as this is a really useful feature,

I have written a small scripts that archives all tracked files into a single zip archive with a useful name (e.g. git_repo_name.v0.2.3-0-g6436ae9.zip). I need this quite often, because I work with a lot of clients who do not use git, so I thought this might be useful for other people.

Do you think this would be a nice addition to have this in git-extras? If you think this is worthy to integrate into git-extras I will fork git-extras, figure out how to write the necessary files for man pages and and auto-completion and send you a pull request when I am done.

So let me know if you are interested in this.

Source: git-archive-file

to apply a pull request to a repo not created under your name (i.e. your contributing to)

this does not seem to be the intended behavior

It would be nice if you could filter out directories rather than just filtering by the number of commits.

Mostly I want to filter out test/* but i'm sure i'll hit other cases as well. grep would work but on a large repo the time it takes to go through a large directory you want to filter is a bit much.

I have this alias on my .gitconfig file:

[alias]
    graph = log --graph --date-order -C -M --pretty=format:\"<%h> %ad [%an] %Cgreen%d%Creset %s\" --all --date=short

it displays a nice graph with all the commits, branches names, etc:

May be useful to somebody else, since I added this alias I stopped using gitk completely.

source: http://stackoverflow.com/a/6212370

In /README.md, The two lines

By default git ls-files is used, however you may pass one or more files to git-effort(1), for example:
$ git effort bin/* lib/*

seem to be part of git-effort doc although they appear in git-repl section

Hello, can you please specify under which license this code is distributed (couldn't find any in Readme.md and mangpages)?

Thanks :)

Found this today, thought it might be a nice addition to the library.

Wherever you are in your project git root will take you to the root directory (where .git is stored).

I'm horrible with bash scripting, so maybe someone can whip up a script, but here's an alias.
alias gr='[ ! -z git rev-parse --show-cdup] && cdgit rev-parse --show-cdup || pwd'

Took this snippet from this article: http://www.clientcide.com/best-practices/j-or-z-for-command-line-awesomeness/

revert multi commit like git-revert.

now I use flowing steps to revert multi commit:
git reset --hard A
git reset --soft @{1} # (or ORIG_HEAD), which is D
git commit -a