A better workflow for git.

Git plan allows you to write your commit messages in-advance, before you start coding. Then you can use those planned-commits as a template for your commit message when you are ready to commit your work. This makes it easier to plan your work and stay on-track.

This tool is in alpha stage. If anything breaks, please open an issue.

Installation

pip install git-plan

Usage

To use the tool, run git plan init (or simply gp <command>) to initialize, and then git plan add to plan a new commit. When you are ready to make a commit to git, use git plan commit to use the plan as a template for your commit message.

• git plan init - initialize git plan in the .plan/ directory
• git plan - create a new plan, or list existing plans
• git plan --version - print version info
• git plan --help - print help
• git plan list [-l/--long] [-b/--branch] - list existing plans
• git plan add - plan a new commit
• git plan edit - edit an existing plan
• git plan delete - delete a plan
• git plan commit - commit your work, choosing a plan as your commit message template

Contributing

• Download the tool and try it out
• Create an issue if you find a bug
• Open a discussion topic if you have a suggestion or question
• Fork the repository, fix a bug or add a feature, and open a PR
• If you'd like making a contribution please ask and we can help you.

Development

• Clone: git clone https://github.com/synek/git-plan && cd git-plan
• Create a virtualenv: python -m venv .venv && source .venv/bin/activate
• Install: poetry install (installs in the virtualenv)
• Check: git plan --version or gp --version (must be run from within the virtualenv)
• Run tests: tox
• Install pre-commit hooks: poetry run pre-commit install

The minimum requirement is python3.6.

Pre-Commit hooks

Failure on any of the hooks will prevent the action taking place.

• pylint on changed source files
• mypy on changed source files
• tox test suite runs

Background and Future Work

Here is an interesting blog post about pre-emptive commit comments, and another about this project itself.

The next step for git plan is to add support for importing plans from Github and Linear. There is a gap between "project planning" tools like Linear, and "project building" tools like git. I'd like to close that gap.

After that, I would like to make it less painful to context-switch while writing code. git plan will be able to context-switch with you, and automatically stage your changes for you when you want to commit your work.