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Why Githelper?

Githelper is a small tool intended to augment the use of the Git revision control system. It started as a 12-line shell script that automatically added modified files to the next commit, a task that can be tedious when not using a GUI interface for git. Githelper has since grown substantially larger in size, (680 LOC!) and sightly less so in its featureset (it now does one other thing, too.)

Using Githelper

Currently the best way to learn about using Githelper (in all of its three command glory) is to check it out (or copy-paste the code), put the file somewhere in your $PATH, and type ‘githelper’ on the command-line.

At the time of this writing the commands i most use are:

> githelper info

and

> githelper add modified as dry run

then

> githelper add modified

But note the syntax and available commands are subject to change!

Please contact me with feature requests / bug reports. Thanks!