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git-gopher

Improving the Git CLI experience with fzf

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What is this?

Rather than needing to remember the exact name of the branch, tag or remote, or the exact syntax of the different git commands needed, git-gopher will provide a list to choose from.

By using fzf for these lists, finding and choosing which item can be done by fuzzy searching the text.

And unlike the git GUIs out there, git-gopher will say exactly what it's doing by displaying the command it will run before the selection is made.

What is this not?

At present, git-gopher is not meant as a comprehensive git solution to include everything you'd ever want to do. Rather, it looks to streamline typical use-cases in a friendly, convenient manner, and allow custom additions to suit personal edge-cases.

Requirements

The following must be installed

Installation

Make sure the basic build tools are installed

pip3 install setuptools wheel

Then we can install via pip

pip3 install git-gopher

Also, $PATH should contain the pip bin directory. That would look something like this in .bashrc, .zshrc or equivalent

PATH="$PATH:~/.local/bin"

Updating

Updating to the latest version is also done via pip

pip3 install --no-cache-dir --upgrade git-gopher

Usage

git-gopher is run from the command line, same as git. The commands will be standard git commands, as if running them directly in the current working directory.

Menu

The ggo command with no arguments will bring up a fzf list of all the commands that git-gopher provides, as well as additional standard git commands.

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Custom commands can be added to menu by creating ~/ggo-options.dat with the options listed in it, one per line, with the command, shortcut, and description separated by |.

Note: Commands cannot contain 2 consecutive spaces (git log: good, git log: bad). The options are formatted into columns and the two spaces are how the command column is delimited.

git dosomething      | shortcut  | Description of my command
git dosomethingelse  | shortcut2 | Description of my other command

Individual commands

There are several commands added to make use of fzf and make interacting with basic git commands faster and easier.

Commands will list out the available branches or tags in fzf as a fuzzy searchable menu rather than requiring that they be provided up front.

Run any command or alias by passing it to the ggo command

For commands that support multiple selections, use SHIFT+TAB to mark each option.

ggo [command|alias]
command alias description
menu Open menu with these and other commands
checkout-branch c Checkout a local branch
checkout-branch-remote cr Checkout a local or remote branch
checkout-tag ct Checkout a tag
branch-branch bb Create and checkout a new branch from another branch
branch-tag bt Create and checkout a new branch from a tag
merge-branch m Merge a branch into the current branch
merge-tag mt Merge a tag into the current branch
merge-squash ms Merge and squash a branch into the current branch
add a Track and stage selected files
fetch f Retrieve repo information from selected remote
track-remote tr Change which remote upstream to track
upstream-push up Push the current branch to remote, setting the upstream
push-tag pt Push a tag to a remote
tag-increment-version tiv Create a new tag, incremented by major, minor or patch
delete-branch d Delete a branch
delete-branch-force df Force delete a branch
delete-tag dt Delete a tag locally
delete-tag-remote dtr Delete a tag both locally and on remote
reset rs Unstage changes after the selected commit
reset-hard rsh Revert to the selected commit, discarding changes
cherry-pick cp Merge specific commits into the current branch
diff-commits di Select two commits and show the changes between them
difftool-commits dit Select two commits and show the changes using difftool
difftool-commits-dir-diff dd Select two commits and show the changed files by directory
history h Show the history of commands run
history-dir hd Show the history of commands run in the current working directory
stash-apply sta Apply the selected stash to the current branch
stash-pop stp Apply the selected stash to the current branch and delete the stash
stash-message stm Stash changes with a message
stash-drop std Delete a stash