ce-contrib-tools

Scripts and tools to help contributing to ce-provision, ce-deploy and ce-dev.

There are three scripts in this repository to make feature branching and managing your local Git repository easier. They are:

• prepare_branch.sh - creates a feature branch from the default branch
• commit.sh - prepares and pushes merge branches
• remove_branches.sh - deletes trailing feature and merge branches in your local project

Installation

Clone the Git repo to /opt on your computer and make the scripts executable:

sudo git clone https://github.com/codeenigma/ce-contrib-tools.git /opt/ce-contrib-tools/
sudo chmod +x /opt/ce-contrib-tools/*.sh

Create links to the scripts in /usr/local/bin so they are available in PATH:

sudo ln -s /opt/ce-contrib-tools/prepare_branch.sh /usr/local/bin/prepare_branch
sudo ln -s /opt/ce-contrib-tools/commit.sh /usr/local/bin/commit
sudo ln -s /opt/ce-contrib-tools/remove_branches.sh /usr/local/bin/remove_branches

prepare_branch

This takes three arguments, the name of the feature branch you want to create, the name of the remote to fetch branches from (defaults to origin) and the branch to base off of (currently defaults to 2.x).

Usage

• Go to the repo you want to work in
• Execute the prepare_branch command with a sensible branch name, e.g. prepare_branch --name my_new_feature

This will switch to the default branch, ensure it is up to date with the central repo, checkout the feature branch and ensure it is up to date with the default branch. Note the command can also be used to refresh an existing feature branch. If the specified feature branche exists already the script will simply re-merge the default branch so it has the latest default branch code merged in.

To use a remote other than origin do something like this:

• prepare_branch --name my_new_feature --origin my-fork

To base yourself off of the 1.x branch do this:

• prepare_branch --name my_new_feature --default 1.x

commit

This has four optional arguments:

• --apply - causes the preparation of a branch to merge into the default branch
• --default - as with prepare_branch, allows you to set the default branch you're working from, defaulting to 2.x - note, it will also set the devel branch to devel-$TARGET_BRANCH so assumes both exist - e.g. --default 3.x will set the default branch to 3.x and the development branch to devel-3.x
• --remote - allows you to specify a remote other than origin, e.g. --remote my-fork
• --skip-checks - prevents Git from running local hooks

If you run commit on its own then it will only prepare a branch to merge to the development branch (defaulting to devel-2.x) and it will assume the remote name is origin and the development branch is devel-2.x.

Usage

• Go to the repo you want to work in
• Check out your feature branch, e.g. git checkout my_new_feature or, better yet, use the prepare_branch command
• Work on your feature
• Add and commit your changes, e.g. git add . && git commit -m "Adding my new feature."
• Execute the commit command - without the --apply option it will only create a development PR branch

This will checkout and pull the development branch and the default branch in turn, to ensure they are up to date locally then, if it doesn't exist already, it will create a PR branch for merging to the development branch, e.g. my_new_feature-PR-devel-2.x. It will then merge devel-2.x into that branch, then it will merge my_new_feature into that branch. Finally, it will push the branch up, at which point you can go off to GitHub or GitLab and create your pull request. If you use the --apply option as well, e.g. commit --apply, then it will do the same steps for the default 2.x branch, so you finish with a my_new_feature-PR-2.x branch in GitHub ready to create a PR.

If for any reason your target remote for merges is not origin then you can specify a remote, e.g. commit --apply --remote my-fork.

If your default branch is not 2.x then you can specify a different one, e.g. commit --apply --default 1.x. This will create feature branches for 1.x and devel instead of the defaults.

remove_branches

As with prepare_branch, this takes three arguments, the name of the feature branch you want to destroy, the name of the remote to prune from (defaults to origin) and the default branch to search for local merge branches (defaults to 2.x).

Usage

• Go to the repo you want to work in
• Execute the remove_branches command with the name of the feature branch you are finished with and want to delete, e.g. remove_branches --name my_new_feature

This will attempt to delete the feature branch and an array of possible local merge branches, which you can see in the code where we declare the variable fb_branches.

It will then execute a git prune to update the origin remote's local cache. If your remote is not called origin you can set another remote with --remote. Similarly, if your default branch is not 2.x you can specify another with --default, just as you can with prepare_branch.