git-brunch

A git command-line tool to work with branches

Features

• Quickly checkout local or remote branch
• Merge or rebase a branch
• Search for a branch
• Delete a branch
• Fetch / Update

Usage

Run git-brunch or git brunch.

Git alias (optional)

An alias like git b (or gb) is a good idea to quickly access the tool.

git config --global alias.b brunch

Installation

The installation is possible in multiple ways, and there are binaries available to download.

Download binary

1. Download from releases
2. Rename the file to git-brunch
3. Make it executable with chmod +x git-brunch
4. Add to your PATH

Arch Linux

git-brunch is in the AUR

yay -S git-brunch
pamac install git-brunch

FreeBSD

git-brunch can be installed from the official FreeBSD package repository

pkg install hs-git-brunch

Nix

git-brunch is part of the nix package manager

nix-env -i git-brunch

Stack

git-brunch can installed with the Haskell build tool stack

stack install git-brunch # --resolver=lts-17.11

Install from source

git-brunch can be installed from source. It can be forked and modified, if you like to.

git clone https://github.com/andys8/git-brunch
cd git-brunch
stack install
# or nix-env -if .

Development

Run application

stack run

Run tests

stack test --file-watch

Build statically linked

stack install --flag git-brunch:static

Generate nix

cabal2nix --shell . > default.nix

Release

• Bump version in package.yaml and default.nix
• stack build
• Create a commit v0.0.0
• Create a tag v0.0.0
• Push commit and push tag
• Release on github will be created by CI
• Update release description
• stack upload .
• Update AUR

Related projects

• git-gone: Lists or removes "gone" branches, that is, local branches which used to have an upstream branch on a remote which is now removed.
• lazygit: Terminal UI for git commands
• gitui: Terminal UI focused on speed in giant repositories