GFLOW

A command line inspired from the Git Flow process and adapted to use rebase command exlusively. It always keep your branches up to date.

Feature

• Define a production and development branches,
• See all branches status,
• Rebase and run tasks (Install and test) before pushing a branch,
• Always create a branch from production,

Install

npm install -g gflow

Usage

  Usage: gflow [options] [command]
 
 
  Options:
 
    -V, --version  output the version number
    -h, --help     output usage information
 
 
  Commands:
 
    branches    List all branches status
    finish      Merge the current branch on the referenced branch (production or ancestor) and delete it
    merge       Merge the current branch on the referenced branch (production or ancestor) without deleting branch
    release     Create the release tag on the production branch. Synchronize the dev branch and production branch (for CI like travis)
    init        Create a new git flow project
    new         Create a new branch from the latest commit of production branch
    push        Rebase the current branch from production and push all commit (run test before)
    rebase      Rebase the current branch from production
    fetch       Download objects and refs from another repository (--all and --prune)
    sync        Synchronize dev branch and production
    config      Operation about configuration
    help [cmd]  display help for [cmd]

Getting started

You can initialize a new GFlow project with this command:

gflow init

This command will configure the production and development branches.

Configuration options

Gflow init command generate a .glfowrc config file with some options look like:

{
  "flow": "gflow", // gflow || gitflow
  "production": "production",
  "develop": "master",
  "charBranchNameSeparator": "_",
  "remote": "origin",
  "ignores": [],
  "syncAfterFinish": true,
  "postFinish": "",
  "skipTest": true,
  "branchTypes": {
    "feat": "feat",
    "fix": "fix",
    "chore": "chore",
    "docs": "docs"
  }
}

Key	Description
flow	Change flow used by GFlow. gflow use rebase command and gitflow use merge command.
production	Name of the production branch or the branch use as reference to rebase a feature branch.
develop	Name of the development branch (or the release candidate branch).
charBranchNameSeparator	Char separator of the a branch between branchName and task type (feat, fix, chore, etc...). Example: if char = "/" feat/branch_name.
remote	Alias name of the remote repository (origin).
ignores	Disable rebasing for the given branch list when the rebase-all command is used.
syncAfterFinish	Perform synchronization between production and develop branches.
postFinish	Run command after the finish command.
skipTest	Disable unit test step.
branchTypes	Configure the branch types for the command gflow new.