Installation

clone the repository

mkdir -p ~/GitHub/rkiel
git clone git@github.com:rkiel/git-feature.git

add the bin to your path

export PATH=~/GitHub/rkiel/git-feature/bin:$PATH

Usage

This utility is built around some standard branch names: master, develop, and integration.

Feature branches have specific format: USER-BASE-FEATURE.

• USER is the username as specificied by the USER environment variable
• BASE is the branch to base the feature branch on
• FEATURE is the name of the feature

Start

To start a new feature, go to one of the standard branches.

git checkout master

Use the start subcommand with a feature name.

feature start my-new-feature

For example, a new branch will be created called rkiel-master-my-new-feature

End

Use the end subcommand to close out the feature.

feature end

For example, the feature branch rkiel-master-my-new-feature will be deleted the master will be checked out.