Git Flow

A collection of Git extensions to provide high-level repository operations for Vincent Driessen's branching model.

• github.com/nvie/gitflow

Description

• branch: master, develop
• prefix: feature, bugfix, release, hotfix, support, versiontag

Creating feature/release/hotfix/support branches.

• feature: the <base> arg must be a commit on develop.
• release the <base> arg must be a commit on develop.
• hotfix the <base> arg must be a commit on master.
• support the <base> arg must be a commit on master.

Installation

MacOS

brew install git-flow-avh

Ubuntu

apt-get install git-flow

Configuration

git flow init -d

Syntax

git flow <prefix-name> <subcommand> <feature-name>

Commands

To list/start/finish feature branches, use:

git flow feature
  git flow feature start <name> [<base>]
  git flow feature finish <name>

To push/pull a feature branch to the remote repository, use:

git flow feature publish <name>
  git flow feature pull <remote> <name>

To list/start/finish release branches, use:

git flow release
git flow release start <release> [<base>]
git flow release finish <release>

git push --tags

To list/start/finish hotfix branches, use:

git flow hotfix
git flow hotfix start <release> [<base>]
git flow hotfix finish <release>

To list/start support branches, use:

git flow support
git flow support start <release> <base>