git_pivotal_tracker

Inspired by Hashrocket's blend of git and Pivotal Tracker and Carbon Five's article on effective git workflows and the git-pivotal gem, I wanted a tool that makes the git workflow fun and simple.

Included in this is a git prepare-commit-msg hook that appends the story id in the proper format to all your commit messages so that they show up in Tracker: https://www.pivotaltracker.com/help/api?version=v3#github_hooks

• git-story
• git-feature
• git-bug
• git-chore

These commands collect the first available story from your Pivotal Tracker project and create a topic branch for it.

• git-finish

When on a topic branch, this command will fetch the latest integration branch ('master' by default), rebase your topic branch from it, merge the branch into the integration branch with no-fast-forward and push the integration branch to origin.

• git-info

Print out the Pivotal Tracker story information for the current topic branch

• grab the next feature in the backlog

  % git feature

• grab the next bug in the backlog

  % git bug

• grab the next chore in the backlog

  % git chore

• grab the next story in the backlog (of whatever type)

  % git story

• grab the first available story (rejected or not yet started)

  % git story -I

• get an interactive list of stories that may include rejected

  % git story -X -I

• a github account
• a Pivotal Tracker project
• Pivotal Tracker api service hook turned on for your github project (under Admin -> Service Hooks)

gem install git_pivotal_tracker

Once installed, git pivotal needs two bits of info: your Pivotal Tracker API Token and your Pivotal Tracker project id:

git config --global pivotal.api-token 123a456b

The project id is best placed within your project's git config:

git config -f .git/config pivotal.project-id 88888

If you project's access is setup to use HTTPS:

git config -f .git/config pivotal.use-ssl 1

If you prefer to merge back to a branch other than master when you've finished a story, you can configure that:

git config -f .git/config pivotal.integration-branch develop

If you prefer to fetch and rebase from origin before merging (default is no):

git config --global pivotal.rebase 1

If you prefer to fast-forward your merges into the integration branch (default is --no-ff):

git config --global pivotal.fast-forward 1

If you prefer to choose one of the first 10 stories interactively:

git config --global pivotal.interactive 1

If you prefer to delete your topic branch after a successful merge into the integration branch:

git config --global pivotal.delete-branch 1

If you would only like to take stories that are assigned to you:

git config --global pivotal.only-mine 1

If your Pivotal Tracker user name is different than your git user name:

git config --global pivotal.full-name 'Ben Lindsey'

If you would like verbose logging turned on for git commands:

git config --global pivotal.verbose 1

• Ben Lindsey ben@cumulo.us

• Liron Yahdav
• Philippe Huibonhoa

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2011 Ben Lindsey

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