committer

Unified command line interface for git, mercurial and subversion.

Usage:
    ci "message"     commits all changes
    st               shows all changes
    up               updates the current directory

Options:
    -h --help        show this help screen
    --debug          enable logging of debug messages
    --version        show version information

committer is best used in combination with ssh keys or credential-cache.

How to Install

sudo pip install committer

More ways to install committer

Features

Commit

How many times did you forget to update before committing your changes?

ci "This is the commit message."

Updates the repository in the current working directory. Only commits your changes when no update-changes have been found.

Status

st

Executes the "status" command known by all version control systems.

Update

up

Updates the current working directory.

Configuration

It is possible to force committer to execute a command (with arguments) before performing any other action. Put a INI file called .committerrc in your current working directory. Example configuration to execute flake8:

[DEFAULT]
execute_before = flake8

If you want to execute a command only before commit please create a section called commit like this:

[COMMIT]
execute_before = pyb -v

Another good example of the usage of this is to pull from upstream master when you are working in a fork

[COMMIT]
execute_before = git pull upstream master

See .committerrc in the committer repository.

Micro Commits

Committing in a high frequency has advantages:

• prevents merging,
• makes code reviews easier, and
• commit messages for smaller commits "tell a story".

Read more on best practices:

• Micro commits
• A note about git commit messages
• Should I use past or present tense in git commit messages?

How to Contribute

Read how to build committer yourself

Alternatives

Did you know all Git repositories on GitHub can be handled using a subversion client?

svn checkout https://github.com/aelgru/committer

Collaborating on GitHub with Subversion

If you do not like the workflow committer implies, you may be interested in hg-git or git-svn.