A few shell scripts for interacting with Git that I find useful.
Copyright 2018 Earl C. Ruby III
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rebase-branch [branchname] [main] -- Rebase branch with <branchname> against
main or another branch.
[branchname] defaults to the name of the current branch you're working on. [main]
defaults to "main".
force-push [branchname] -- Force-push your rebased branch to origin.
[branchname] defaults to the name of the current branch you're working on.
refresh-fork -- When executed inside of a forked repository, updates the forked repository
based on the upstream repo's main branch.
rename-branch [old branch name] [new branch name] -- Renames a branch locally
and on the remote origin.
If you haven't done a lot of rebasing and fixing conflicts in Git I recommend that you make a backup copy of your work directory first. If anything goes seriously wrong during this process just restore your backup and start over, or pull a fresh copy from Github with:
git reset origin/$branchname --hard
That will wipe out any local changes you made and replace them with a copy from Github.
If you have a development branch that has conflicts due to changes in the main branch first rebase your code against the current main branch:
rebase-branch $branchname $main
At this point you'll get a warning that there are merge conflicts. Use git status to find out
which files are affected. Fix the conflicts, then:
git rebase --continue
You may get more warnings about merge conflicts. Repeat the cycle of git status, fix conflicts,
git rebase --continue until all of the conflicts are fixed.
At this point your local copy of the $branchname branch will have all of the changes you made
and all of the latest changes from $main. To update your PR:
force-push $branchname
This will force-push your changes to Github and the Github copy of your branch will match the local, rebased copy of your branch.