Extra Git Commands

A tool that creates some commands for working with BitBucket and GitHub that you can add to Git.

• browse - Opens a browser for the current repository and branch.
• pull-request - Opens a new pull-request.
• quick-start - Quickly starts a new project by copying and customizing an existing repository.

To add these commands to Git, do git config --global --edit and insert:

[alias]
  ...
  browse = !git-extra browse
  pull-request = !git-extra pull-request
  quick-start = !git-extra quick-start

Quick Start

By default quick-start copies an existing repository by cloning it and then resets the Git history.

The power of quick-start is that you can customize the project after the initial clone. To enable this, create a git-extra-customize.js file in the root of the project. This file contains a Javascript program that is run after the initial clone which can change the contents of the files, changing names, creating files and directories, etc.. The script is run in a VM so it can only do a restricted set of things. See the GitExtraTool.js for the full list of functions available.

git-extra-customize.js

The following objects and methods are available:

async	Method	Description
	args.projectName	The name of the project (the path.basename() of the directory)
	args.userName	The name of the currently logged in user
	ui.log(message)	Display a message to stdout
async	fs.readFile(fileName)	Read a file from the project
async	fs.writeFile(fileName)	Write a file to the project
async	fs.remove(pathName)	Remove a file or directory from the project
async	fs.move(fromPath, toPath)	Move a file or directory in the project
async	fs.ensureFile(fileName)	Ensure a file exists in the project, creating it if not
async	fs.ensureDir(dirName)	Ensure a directory exists in the project, creating it if not
async	fs.inPlaceUpdate(fileName, array)	In-place-update a file with an array of search/replace strings. See below.
	path.join(...pathNames)	Join a bunch of path parts
	path.dirname(pathName)	Get the directory part of a path
	path.basename(pathName[, extName])	Get the base part of path with any extension, remove extName if it exists
	path.extname(pathName)	Get the extension of a path
async	git.forceAdd(fileName)	Force add a file to the Git repository
	changeCase.camel(name)	Change the name to "camelCase"
	changeCase.capital(name)	Change the name to "Capital Case"
	changeCase.constant(name)	Change the name to "CONSTANT_CASE"
	changeCase.dot(name)	Change the name to "dot.case"
	changeCase.header(name)	Change the name to "Header-Case"
	changeCase.word(name)	Change the name to "word case"
	changeCase.param(name)	Change the name to "param-case"
	changeCase.pascal(name)	Change the name to "PascalCase"
	changeCase.path(name)	Change the name to "path/case"
	changeCase.sentence(name)	Change the name to "Sentence case"
	changeCase.snake(name)	Change the name to "snake_case"
async	ui.prompts(promptArray)	Display array of prompts. See below.
	ui.log(message)	Display a message to stdout

ui.prompts(...) takes an array of:

  [
    {
      name: string,
      initial: string, // Optional
      message: string,
      regex: string, // Optional
      error: string, // Optional
    }
  ]

fs.inPlaceUpdate(...) takes an array of arrays of search/replace pairs:

 [
   [/something/, "anotherThing"],
 ]