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• git delete

  Delete a local branch and its upstream branch altogether.

• git fork

  Create a new branch based on the default branch (usually origin/main).

• git push2

  Push a branch and set the upstream if not already set.

• git try-merge

  Does like a git merge origin/main but helps you resolve the conflicting commits one by one instead than having to solve them altogether like git merge.

git-try-merge

Does like a git merge origin/main but helps you resolve the conflicting commits one by one instead than having to solve them altogether like git merge.

Synopsis

git try-merge
# 1.  Merge as many non-conflicting commits as possible under one merge commit
#     (if any)
# 2.  Merge the first conflicting commit alone
#     (if any)
#
# Then you need to repeat the command `git try-merge` until your branch is
# fully updated.
#
# The point: all the conflicting commits will be merged one-by-one which will
# allow you to fully understand the reason of the conflict and solve them
# separately. (A bit like `git rebase` would do.)

There is no real equivalent purely with Git's CLI. This is the closest:

git fetch
git merge origin/main
# Then you will solve all the conflicts of all the commits in one commit,
# no matter how many commits are conflicting.

Installation

cargo install git-tools --bin git-try-merge

git-fork

Create a new branch based on the default branch (usually origin/main).

Synopsis

git fork new-branch

# This command will:
#  -  make sure there is no uncommitted changes (clean state)
#  -  fetch (update) origin/main (or your default branch)
#  -  create a new branch "new-branch" that will be based on origin/main
#  -  checkout on this new branch

More or less equivalent to:

git checkout main
git pull --ff-only
git checkout -b new-branch

Implementation notes

The local branch main will not be updated. In fact, you don't even need a local branch main. The exact equivalent with Git would be more something like this:

git fetch origin main
# <ensure manually no uncommitted changes are pending>
git branch -f new-branch origin/main
git checkout new-branch

Installation

cargo install git-tools --bin git-fork

git-push2

Push a branch and set the upstream if not already set.

Synopsis

git push2

This is the equivalent of:

git push
# if it fails:
git push --set-upstream origin new-branch

Installation

cargo install git-tools --bin git-push2

git-delete

Delete a local branch and its upstream branch altogether.

Synopsis

git delete new-branch

This is the equivalent of:

git branch -d new-branch
git push origin :new-branch

Installation

cargo install git-tools --bin git-delete