git-cherry-fix

helps you get your fixes to another branch by cherry-picking them

Installation

npm install -g git-cherry-fix

Usage

start interactive process

git-cherry-fix

quick interactive process

git-cherry-fix <base-branch>

Assumptions

In order for the quick-pr tool to work best, you should name your branches with a prefix and a forward slash.

So for example task/this-is-my-branch.

quick-pr uses this to know where your branch name starts, and uses the same convention by prefixing patch branches with patch/TARGET-task/this-is-my-branch. Where target is the target branch.

Examples

I just wrote a hotfix to master. Now I want to port it to staging and develop.

• I use branch name patch/MASTER-task/fix-something
• I run the command git-cherry-fix staging
  • This will automatically create branch patch/STAGING-task/fix-something based off staging
• I run the command git-cherry-fix develop
  • This will automatically create branch task/fix-something based off develop

Configuration

The following configuration is available in a file called .git-cherry-fix.yml.
We will look for the file upwards.

main_branch: develop
branch_nickname:
  master: production
  staging: qa

• main_branch - defaults to develop. will remove the prefix from the target branch if main_branch. for example, cherry picking from patch/branch-fix/something to develop will automatically make the branch name simply fix/something (without a prefix).
• branch_nickname - will use the nickname on the target branch name prefix. for example patch/production-fix/something.

roadmap:

• push changes
• open a PR (support bitbucket) - when applicable using base branch - Use quick-pr instead
• allow configuration for different standards used than default
• show only commits that do not exist in target branch