Git Town makes Git more efficient, especially for large teams. See this screencast for an introduction and this Softpedia article for an independent review.

Commands

Git Town provides these additional Git commands:

Development Workflow

• git town hack - cuts a new up-to-date feature branch off the main branch
• git town sync - updates the current branch with all ongoing changes
• git town new-pull-request - create a new pull request
• git town ship - delivers a completed feature branch and removes it

Repository Maintenance

• git town kill - removes a feature branch
• git town prune-branches - delete all merged branches
• git town rename-branch - rename a branch
• git town append - insert a new branch as a child of the current branch
• git town prepend - insert a new branch between the current branch and its parent
• git town repo - view the repository homepage

Git Town Configuration

• git town config - displays or updates your Git Town configuration
• git town new-branch-push-flag - configures whether new empty branches are pushed to origin
• git town main-branch - displays or sets the main development branch for the current repo
• git town offline - enables/disables offline mode
• git town perennial-branches - displays or updates the perennial branches for the current repo
• git town pull-branch-strategy - displays or sets the strategy with which perennial branches are updated
• git town set-parent-branch - updates a branch's parent

Git Town Installation

• git town alias - adds or removes shorter aliases for Git Town commands
• git town install-fish-autocompletion - installs the autocompletion definition for Fish shell
• git town version - displays the installed version of Git Town

Installation

Since version 4.0, Git Town runs natively and without any dependencies on all platforms. See the installation instructions for more details.

Aliasing

Git Town commands can be aliased to remove the town prefix:

git town alias true

After executing this, you can run git hack instead of git town hack. You can also set this manually for individual commands:

git config --global alias.hack 'town hack'

Configuration

Git Town prompts for required configuration information during usage. Use the git town config command to manage the stored configuration.

Required configuration

• the main development branch
• the perennial branches

Optional Configuration

These configuration options have defaults, so the configuration wizard does not ask about them.

• pull branch strategy

  • how to sync the main branch / perennial branches with their upstream
  • default: rebase
  • possible values: merge, rebase

• new branch push flag

  • whether or not branches created by hack / append / prepend should be pushed to remote repo
  • default: false
  • possible values: true, false

Documentation

Run git town for an overview of the Git Town commands and git help <command> (e.g. git help sync) for help with individual commands.

Q&A

• Is this compatible with my workflow?
  Yes. Git Town is compatible with GitHub Flow, Git Flow, the Nvie model, GitLab Flow, and most others workflows.

• Does my whole team have to use Git Town?
  No. Just make sure that all feature branches get squash-merged, for example by requiring this in your GitHub settings. If you don't know what squash-merges are, you probably want to enable them.

Contributing

Found a bug or have an idea for a new feature? Open an issue or send a pull request! Check out our contributing and developer guides to get started.

Sponsors

Thanks to our sponsors for their continued support!

Contributors

Kudos to our contributors!

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