Overview

pargit is a workflow utility for Git, inspired by git-flow and git-flow-avh.

Wait, what?

git-flow is a tool originally published as a follow-up to this article from 2010, which has been very appealing for developers. git-flow allows you to go through the various phases of release/feature cycles with relative ease, which is great.

Why Pargit?

Although git-flow is great, it is far from perfect. First, it has all sorts of usability issues, some of which addressed by the git-flow-avh fork project. More importantly, for some types of projects, a lot of manual labour still needs to be done to publish and manage releases. This is where Pargit steps in.

Pargit aims to be an opinionated alternative to git-flow, while providing better automation around the tedious parts.

Main Features

• Atomic Releases - when attempting to publish a release that conflicts with the upstream repo, tools like git-flow fail and leave you with a half-published release. Pargit fixes that by rolling back the release in a clean way and getting rid of the temporary tag created.
• Project-Internal Versioning Logic - pargit includes pre-release checks aimed at minimizing pain and errors. For Rust projects, it checks Cargo.lock correctness, performs version bumps for you, and prompts you to choose the project being bumped in multi-crate workspaces.
• Saner Defaults - pargit aims to make sense, deducing parameters when possible and using sane defaults for dealing with project workflow. Unlike git-flow, pargit will not prompt you twice for a commit message as a part of releasing a version 🤦‍♂️

Quickstart

Installation

$ cargo install --locked pargit

Features

Pargit forks feature branches from the develop branch by default. To start a new feature:

# starts a new feature, and places you in the feature/my_feature branch
$ pargit feature start my_feature 
# deletes a feature (defaults to the current one)
$ pargit feature delete [feature name] 
# publishes a feature branch to a matching remote branch, setting its upstream (defaults to the current feature)
$ pargit feature publish [feature name]

Releases

# Start a new release from the develop branch
$ pargit release start 0.1.0
# Alternatively, you can tell pargit to bump a patch, minor or major version numbers
$ pargit release start minor
# You can publish a release branch to a remote branch, setting its upstream
$ pargit release publish [release name]
# When you're done, finish the release
$ pargit release finish [release name]

Pargit also supports quick version releases, which does the version release steps in succession for you:

$ pargit release version 0.2.0

Or you can specify a major/minor/patch bump:

$ pargit release version major

Configuration

You can configure pargit by adding a .pargit.toml file in your project's root directory, in the following format (all values optional):

tag_prefix = "" # prefix for tags, e.g. "v". Default is empty prefix

You can also specify custom names for your production and development branches. By default at the moment, Pargit assumes the production branch name is master (but this is likely to change in the future):

master_branch_name = "master" # optional
develop_branch_name = "develop" # optional

For repositories in which the project being manipulated does not reside in the repository's root, you can set the project subpath configuration value:

project_subpath = "./project"