git-pr-branch 0.0.1

A command line tool to manage the relationship between branches and pull-requests.

GIT PR branch

git-pr-branch is a command line tool designed to manage the relationship between branches and pull-requests.

At the moment it only supports Github, but other backends are possible.

You need to create a personal token in https://github.com/settings/tokens. When you start the program for the first time, it will ask you for it and store it in a configuration file.

I suggest running git config alias.pr '!git-pr-branch' to simplify git integration. You will just need to type git pr to run git-pr-branch, options and arguments will be forwarded. With this alias, you can replace git-pr-branch with just git pr in the following examples.

Checking out pull requests

git-pr-branch checkout 42 will a pull request #42 in a local branch, creating a new branch each time the command is run. Why, you ask? Because it is common for PR authors to amend their commits after a review instead of adding more commits, and as a reviewer it's hard to see the differences between the code you reviewed and the new code. By creating a new branch each time, you can just diff with the previous branch.

If you have not checked out this PR before, it will create a branch for every existing review in the PR's history. This way it'll be easy to see what's changed between earlier reviews even if you did not run the command at that time.

Displaying branches and pull requests

git-pr-branch show will list all your local branches and show you whether they are associated with a pull request, whether that PR is still open or not, and the URL for that PR.

Purging branches

git-pr-branch purge will delete the branches that are linked to a closed pull request (or multiple pull requests that are all closed). This will let you keep your local repo tidy.