psykorebase 1.0.1

What?

As a summary:

• git checkout topic && git merge master is the wrong way to merge. Get ready for bad things to happen.

• git checkout topic && git rebase master is better but:

  • it alters history. It is safe from merge conflicts but doesn’t guarantee that merged code works. You are losing some intermediate states of your work.

  • it is incompatible with branches you already pushed to shared repository.

psykorebase:

• mimics the “rebase” workflow, but only using merges, no history alteration. It replays “topic” changes on top of “master” in “topic” branch (just like rebase), without deleting “topic” changes.

• preserves all states of your code.

• is compatible with pushed branches.

• the main (and only?) counterpart is that there are more entries in history. There are more commits and more merges. Is that a drawback? If you look carefully, things are clear and clean. But some developers don’t like it…

Install

Currently developped against Python 2.7.x. Supports only Git for now.

sudo pip install https://github.com/benoitbryon/psykorebase/archive/master.tar.gz#egg=psykorebase

Uninstall with sudo pip uninstall psykorebase.

Usage

git checkout master && git pull --rebase origin master  # Update master.
git checkout topic && psykorebase master  # Psykorebase topic on top of master.