Configfile

Explanation of values

First, let me show you a complete configfile, for demonstration, I'll use the one of gitcd itself.

master: master
feature: null
test: test
tag: v
versionType: file
versionScheme: version.txt
extraReleaseCommand: ./publish.sh

Now lets step through the values.

• master

  This represents your master branch. New feature branches will be derived from this branch as well as tagging will happen on this branch.

• feature

  This value is used as a prefix for your feature branches. Many projects use "feature/my-awesome-feature" for feature branch names. If this is the case, you can set up the prefix "feature/" here. Then, if you start a new feature by executing git cd start my-awesome-feature your new branch will end up with the desired name. Of course, you can just let it empty as I do it in gitcd. Gitcd will then not use any prefix for feature branches.

• test

  This is the branch name you want to use for testing purposes. For example, in a lot of projects I work on we use this kind of branch for integration tests. This can be understood as a prefix as well. This is for the reason you might never merge the test branch back into your master but just merging features into your test branch. If this is the case and a feature is maybe too bad to make it into the master, this test branch will diverge from your master over time. At my workplace we solve this by drop a test branch on sunday night automatically and create a new one derived from master. To prevent users pushing the old history, our test branch gets a suffix. For example the sprint number or the current date. For example, we have in two projects currently the test branches "test-159" and "develop-2018-03-04" respectively. Developers can execute a git cd clean on Monday morning to get their local repositories up to date with the remote one.

• tag

  This is a prefix used for tags, usually this will be v or just null. If you have set up v as a prefix and releasing version 1.0.0, gitcd will tag this version as v1.0.0 on your remote.

• versionType [manual|file|date]

  You have different options to get to your version number

  manual As you might consider, if you setup manual version numbers, gitcd will ask you for a number when you execute the release command.

  file If you have a file storing your current version, this is the ideal option for you. Gitcd itself stores it version in a text file called version.txt. This is also used in setup.py for pushing the package to python package index. If you setup this option, you need to set up the file which is storing your version number in "versionScheme".

  date If you want to use a date format as version, this is the option for you. Even if i think it does not make much sense, I don't judge on you since, you might have already thought it, I implemented this option because we actually use it on a project at my workplace.

• versionScheme

  This option is tightly bound to the versionType setting. If you have chosen a manual versionType, you need to let this with null. If you have chosen version number by file, this is the option where your file path is stored. And finally, if you have chosen the type date, you can store the desired date format here. Read through python date formats for the right value: http://strftime.org/

• extraReleaseCommand

  You are able to execute any given command while executing git cd release for example, gitcd executes ./publish.sh which pushes the new package to the python package index.