git-publish

Gavin Beatty gavinbeatty@gmail.com

git publish: a simple shell script to ease the unnecessarily complex task of "publishing" a branch, i.e., taking a local branch, creating a reference to it on a remote repo, and setting up the local branch to track the remote one, all in one go.

From the manpage:

NAME
       git-publish - push a git branch to a remote and track it

SYNOPSIS
       git-publish [OPTIONS] [<remote>]

DESCRIPTION
       Publish <branch> to <remote> and configure the local <branch> to track
       <branch> on the remote end.

OPTIONS
       -v, --verbose
           Print the git commands before executing them.

       -n, --dry-run
           Don’t run any of the git commands. Only print them, as in -v.

       -f, --force
           Don’t run any tests on the local and remote branches to see if they
           are already tracking branches, etc.

       -d, --delete
           Delete the specified <branch> from <remote> and stop tracking it.

       -b, --branch=<branch>
           The branch we wish to publish.

       -t, --tracking-only
           Don’t push any local branches or delete any remote ones - only
           change tracking configuration.

       --version
           Print version info in the format ´git publish version $version´.

       <remote>
           The remote to which you want to publish.

EXIT STATUS
       0 on success and non-zero on failure.

AUTHOR
       Gavin Beatty <gavinbeatty@gmail.com> Forked from git-publish-branch

RESOURCES
       Website: https://github.com/gavinbeatty/git-publish

REPORTING BUGS
       Please report all bugs and wishes to <gavinbeatty@gmail.com>

COPYING
       git-publish Copyright (C) 2010 Gavin Beatty, <gavinbeatty@gmail.com>

       Originally a fork of git-publish-branch, and as such, retaining
       copyright: http://git-wt-commit.rubyforge.org/git-publish-branch
       git-publish-branch Copyright (C) 2008 William Morgan
       <wmorgan-git-wt-add@masanjin.net>.

       Free use of this software is granted under the terms of the GNU General
       Public License version 3, or at your option, any later version.
       (GPLv3+)

Dependencies

• sh: in POSIX
• sed: in POSIX.
• git: it is very much not in POSIX.

As such, git-publish should be portable across all platforms that Git supports.

License

git publish is a modified version of git-publish-branch, found: http://git-wt-commit.rubyforge.org/git-publish-branch

As this is a fork of git-publish-branch, it retains the original copyright. git-publish-branch Copyright 2008 William Morgan wmorgan-git-wt-add@masanjin.net.

The modifications are copyright. git publish Copyright 2010 Gavin Beatty gavinbeatty@gmail.com.

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You can find the GNU General Public License at: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/

Install

Configure:

make

Or configure with your own build directory:

make builddir=../build/git-publish

Build:

make

Default prefix is /usr/local:

sudo make install

Select your own prefix:

make install prefix=~/