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Inspired by Hashrocket's blend of git and Pivotal Tracker and a popular article on effective git workflows, I set off to create a set of utilities to simplify the workflow between the two.
The Git Pivotal utility provides three tools to integrate with your Pivotal Tracker project -- git feature, git bug and git chore. These commands collect the top-most available feature, bug or chore (respectively) from your Pivotal Tracker and creates a unique feature branch for it.
1 git-pivotal:master % git feature
Collecting latest stories from Pivotal Tracker...
Story: Test git pivotal
URL: http://www.pivotaltracker.com/story/show/1234567
Updating story status in Pivotal Tracker...
Enter branch name (will be prepended by 1234567) [feature]: testing
Creating 1234567-testing branch...
2 git-pivotal:1234567-testing %When on a feature branch, this command will close the associated story in Pivotal Tracker, merge the branch into your integration branch (master by default) and remove the feature branch.
3 git-pivotal:1234567-testing % git finish
Marking Story 1234567 as finished...
Merging 1234567-testing into master
Removing 1234567-testing branch
4 git-pivotal:master %When on a feature/bug/chore branch, this command will display the story information as recorded in Pivotal Tracker.
5 git-pivotal:1234567-testing % git info
Story: Test git pivotal
URL: http://www.pivotaltracker.com/story/show/1234567
Description: The awesome story description
6 git-pivotal:1234567-testing % To install git-pivotal, simply run
[sudo] gem install git-pivotalOnce installed, git pivotal needs three bits of info: your Pivotal Tracker API Token, your name as it appears in Pivotal Tracker and your Pivotal Tracker project id. The former two are best set as a global git config options:
git config --global pivotal.api-token 9a9a9a9a9a9a9a9a9a9a
git config --global pivotal.full-name "Jeff Tucker"If you prefer to merge back to a branch other than master when you've finished a story, you can configure that:
git config --global pivotal.integration-branch developIf you only want to pick up bugs/features/chores that are already assigned to you, set:
git config --global pivotal.only-mine trueThe project id is best placed within your project's git config:
git config -f .git/config pivotal.project-id 88888If you would rather have the story id appended to the branch name (feature-123456) instead of prepending (123456-feature), you can configue that:
git config -f .git/config pivotal.append-name trueIf you're not interested in storing these options in git, you can pass them into git pivotal as command line arguments. See the usage guides for more details.
This is beta software. Several things on the ol' todo list:
git pick doesn't update the story to indicate who claimed itgit pickgit finish