git-tools

Ansible role which does prepare some usual needed settings, aliases and other tools for efficient git usage.

Features

Aliases

Many small shortcuts for useful commands. Like git fix <commit_hash> which combines a git commit --fixup and the corresponding git rebase -i.

// stage your changes e.g. with git gui
$ git gui

// check which commit to fix e.g. with git l
$ git l

// now append the staged changes to the selected commit
$ git fix <commit-hash>

// this results in rebasing and therefore changing the history until the selected commit

Or git loc <file_ending> which shows the count of lines (loc) in files matching the pattern given by <file_ending>.

// count lines in all ".cpp" files
$ git loc cpp

// count lines in all ".cpp" and ".h" files
$ git loc "cpp|h"
// "" or '' are needed to interpret | as part of the regex used internally and not as pipe operator of the shell

Prompt

Additional diffs

Additional diff strategies to be able to also work with some binary files, like:

• doc, docx
• xls, xlsx
• pdf
• zip, tar, bz2, etc.

Graphs

Requirements

This role should work on most linux distributions. Tested on Ubuntu, Centos, Fedora and Debian. See ansible_run.yml for more information about CI-testing.

The only requirements is bash, if the git_prompt-feature is activated.

Role Variables

All variable that may be manipulated by the user are collected in defaults/main.yml . See the inline description there.

Dependencies

This role is completely self-containing and has no dependencies to other ansible roles.

Usage

If you just want to use these tools without creating your own playbook etc. you have to just install ansible and then use the described way under Development-Localhost.

See testing/playbook.yml for example playbook.

To be able to install the role you can use the command:

ansible-galaxy install git+https://github.com/langchr86/git-tools.git,master

or you define it in requirements.yml:

- src: 'https://github.com/langchr86/git-tools.git'
  version: 'master'

and then install with:

ansible-galaxy install -r requirements.yml

Development

Docker

To develop and test this role the docker infrastructure, which is also used by travis, can be used. Ubuntu is used as distro by default.

# Build the docker image.
./testing/1_create.sh

# Create docker container and run it with the correct mounted volumes.
./testing/2_run.sh

# Connect into the container.
./testing/3_connect.sh

# Now you are logged-in the docker container.

cd /etc/ansible/roles/git-tools/
./testing/4_test.sh

# Now the example playbook should run and you can test the installed features.

# Leave the container with the following command when you are finished developing/testing.
exit

# Remove all signs of the docker container.
./testing/5_remove.sh

Localhost

To be able to test with GUI tools you need to test on a system with X11 capabilities. Usually this is your localhost. Ensure you have correctly installed ansible on your machine.

To run the example playbook you can checkout the repo, adapt testing/playbook.yml and run it on localhost by using run_local.sh.

License

MIT

Versioning

There exists no version numbers, releases, tags or branches. The master should be considered the current stable release. All other existing branches are feature/development branches and are considered unstable.

Author Information

Christian Lang lang.chr86@gmail.com