Command line utility to help with deploying commits to customer enviornments by doing cherry-picks. While we know cherry-picking for release is not the best way to do it, it is required in some cases. This package makes the process of creating release feature-branches and cherry-picks faster, easier and less error prone.
You can execute cherry-release iinside any git repository with npx. Use --help to find out about the options
npm install -g @pitcher/cherry-release
cherry-release --help
Usage: cherry-release [options]
Options:
-t, --targets <branch-names...> Where do you want to deploy? Provide target release branch names.
You can provide many branch names separated by spaces.
-b, --branch-name <branch-name> What should be the unique branch name of your deploy branch(es)? Provide the core of the release feature
branch name that will be used with this template `deploy/<branch-name>_to_<target>`. (default: "2022-12-2")
-c, --commits <commits...> What commits do you want to deploy? Provide space-separated SHAs of the commits you want to cherry-pick.
If both commits and search options are provided, they will be merged.
-s, --search <string> What JIRA issues do you want to deploy? Specify keyword to search for in the commit messages and
interactively pick them from the list. Case insensitive.
-np, --no-push You don't want to push yet? Disable pushing new branches to the remote repository.
-h, --help display help for command