git-friendly

git-friendly

# git-friendly is on [Github](https://github.com/jamiew/git-friendly)

git-friendly provides four extra helpful sugar methods around git's functionality. After installing the collection bash shell scripts, your `git` workflow will suddenly make more sense and Do the Right Thing. Paul Irish talked about them a while back in [this video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7AU2Ozu8eo).

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From the README:

> A collection of shell scripts for making pulling, branching, and merging > with git fast and painless.

> Git sometimes requires typing 2 or 3 commands just to execute something basic like fetching new code. git-friendly adds some new commands – pull, push, branch, merge – which are just simple wrappers around git commands and some post-pull hooks.

> Bonus niceties:

> * push also copies a GitHub compare URL to your clipboard for easy pasting
> * pull will run commands like `bundle install` and `npm install` if applicable
> * branch will track remote branches if available
> * relevant commands stash/pop changes as needed
> less time fighting git = more time actually doing work

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Using these helpers, you get a jump start on more advanced `git` topics like stashing, rebasing, and quickly branching.

There's an installation script, but I prefer to manage my shell scripts with [fresh](http://freshshell.com). I symlink them to my `~/bin` with this simple loop in my `.freshrc`:

    # git friendly
    # abstractions around common git tasks
    for gitHelper in branch merge pull push; do
        fresh jamiew/git-friendly $gitHelper --bin
    done
    unset gitHelper

Anyway, I hope they make your life easier.

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