Work In Progress (WIP) option for git

Keep your work in progress in a remote branch in order to make it available to all your workstations.

Usage

% git wip
Usage: git wip [get|push]

Saving Work In Progress

% git branch -a
* master
  remotes/origin/master

% echo "some new stuff, but not done for real" >> test.txt

% git wip push
[...]

% git branch -a
  master
* wip-1492044696
  remotes/origin/master
  remotes/origin/wip-1492044696

Note: all previous WIP (remotes/origin/wip-... ) stored on the remote server are deleted, local WIP is kept to allow rebasing.

Getting Last Version Of Work In Progress

Current WIP is an old one (no fetch or no pull done yet)

% git branch -a
  master
* wip-1492043628
  remotes/origin/HEAD -> origin/master
  remotes/origin/master
  remotes/origin/wip-1492043628 (<- does not exist anymore on the remote server)

Getting the latest WIP

% git wip get

% git branch -a
  master
  wip-1492043628
* wip-1492044696
  remotes/origin/HEAD -> origin/master
  remotes/origin/master
  remotes/origin/wip-1492044696

Previous WIP is kept locally (wip-1492043628).