Gitup

We want our team members to be working in their own branches locally and push to origin/master every once in a while. Gitup is a tool to make that easier and avoid a lot of unnecessary conflicts during that time.

This gem is developed for use on Mac OS X, but should work on any *nix type system. There is a port for Windows using Python developed by eriik

sudo gem install gitup

in your console should do it. You need git installed locally and added to your path (which you probably already have).

The gem has two basic functions, 'gitup' and 'gitdown'. Both should be added automatically to your path when you install the gem.

Let's say you clone a new project in Git:

git clone git@example.com:repository.git

Then you check out your local branch, since working directly in the master branch usually gives you a lot of conflicts if you are more than one working on the project:

git checkout -b new_feature

Now whenever you need to update your branch from the origin/master repository you could just run the following command:

gitdown

Or when you want to push your changes to the server:

gitup

Easy enough?

This was developed by David Svensson of Standout solutions and you could use it in any way you wish. A link to our webpage or a reference to who created it would be appreciated, though. Happy gitup-ing! :)