Stacked branches and github PR's

Caution

Work in progress

G-stack is a CLI util to simplify creating stacked branches and pull requests on github.

Installation

brew tap bendzae/gstack

and then

brew install gstack

Configuration

To be able to create and modify github prs a personal access token is needed. Check the official github docs and make sure the token has read/write access to pull requests. Then create a config file with the following content in $HOME/.gstack/config.toml

personal_access_token = "<GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN>"

Usage

Show available commands

gs help

Create a new stack

Creates a new stack with the current branch as a base and checks out the new branch

gs new

Add a new stack branch

Stacks a new branch on top of the current stac

gs add

Rebase branches

Pulls, rebases and pushed all stack branches and updates PR descriptions

gs sync
# or
gs ss

Moving through stack branches

Move up and down trough stack branches with:

gs up
gs down

or interactively select a stack branch with

gs change
#or
gs c

Working with github pull requests

Create github pr's for all stack branches that don't have a pr yet:

gs pr new

Merge all stack pr's in sequence to the stacks base branch (takes care of rebases in between merges):

gs pr merge