gitgoodies

gg

the cookbook of git goodies

gg helps you work with git more efficiently, saving you keystrokes for your most prized projects.

Think of gg as a wrapper for the git commands that you run all the time.

Getting Started

After the super painless installation, suppose we want to clone the awesome spark shell script (created by Zach Holman). Alright, let's switch into that directory. After making a quick change, let's check the status of our clone. Looks like we haven't staged our changes.

In the standard git workflow, we would have to git add -A and then git commit -m "Updated example in README.".

With gg, we can simply gg c Updated example in README. and we're good to go. Let's check our clone's status again. Looking good!

Installation

gg can be installed via the Node Package Manager (npm).

	$ npm install -g gitgoodies

If that doesn't work, try running it as root. $ sudo npm install -g gitgoodies

You can also get up and running without npm, but it is not recommended to do so.

	# Clone the repository.
	$ git clone https://github.com/qw3rtman/gg.git

	# Switch into the repository's directory.
	$ cd gg

	# Install!
	$ npm install -g

	# Install as root, if the above command does not work.
	$ sudo npm install -g

gg relies on Node.js and git.

Don't foget to alias gg='noglob gg' (alias gg to noglob gg) if you're using prezto, oh-my-zsh, or something similar.

As the standard git plugin for oh-my-zsh already has uses gg as an alias for git gui citool, I recommend either unaliasing the oh-my-zsh plugin alias if you don't use it by placing unalias gg at the end of ~/.oh-my-zsh/plugins/git/git.plugin.zsh, or aliasing gg with a different alias, such as ggg.

Updating

Changes are published to the npm package, which is kept up-to-date with this GitHub repository. Simply update via npm:

	# Update gg
	$ npm update -g gitgoodies

FAQ

Hold up. Aren't these basically Git aliases?

There's more to the package than just shortcuts or aliases.

For example, the gg s command presents you with an easy to look at a quick glance status of your repository. In addition, there are aesthetic changes that increase the intuitiveness of Git itself.

Here's a screenshot of the gg s command in action:

Why Node?

There's nothing special in Node that caused me to select it for this project. I wanted to get my feet wet with a new language and was recommended to try Node.

As Node is fairly popular (from what I've seen), I didn't think the issue of an extra dependency would exist.

In addition, I felt Node would widen the audience that could both understand and contribute to gg, compared to Bash.

Also, Node is platform-agnostic, unlike Bash, which is only happy on Unix-based systems.

Usage

Initializing repositories

• gg i
• gg init
• gg initialize

Cloning repositories

• gg cl
• gg clone

Adding changes

Specify which files to add.

• gg a
• gg add

Add all files.

• gg aa

Committing changes

• gg c
• gg ci
• gg commit

Pushing commits

• gg p
• gg push

Pulling commits

• gg pl
• gg pull

Fetching commits

• gg f
• gg fetch

Fetch all (git fetch -all)

• gg fa

Viewing status

• gg s
• gg st
• gg status

Viewing log

• gg l
• gg log

Creating branches

• gg b
• gg branch
• gg b new-branch
• gg branch new-branch

Checking out branches

• gg ch
• gg checkout
• gg ch new-branch
• gg checkout new-branch

Contributing

Contributions are always welcome.

We follow Airbnb's coding standard, so make sure you use that as a guideline.

Fork our code, make a new branch, and send a pull request.

TODO:

• support for branches
• handling for non-fast-forwards (when you need to pull first, merge, and then push)
• handling for merge conflicts
• handling for freshly initialized git repositories status
• support for specifying path of repository initialization and cloning
• unit tests
• custom routines