Git Flip

Flip from one branch to another, interactively. Why another one of these?

I didn't like the information the others provide. I like seeing who last touched a branch and when!

Installation

npm i -g git-flip

To integrate as an alias within git proper:

# add a change branch alias 
git config --global alias.cb '!git-flip'
 
# or set it to flip 
git config --global alias.flip '!git-flip'
 
# and then realize that typing "flip" is a lot of work and shorten it more 
git config --global alias.f '!git-flip'

Usage

To select a new branch you can either call git-flip or the short-form alias gf. Alternately you can integrate with git as an aias (see above).

$ git-flip

$ gf

Under the covers

It runs straight git commands. This allows all the hard work the git team already put into getting things right to be used rather than a custom library for it.