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title: Git extras
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### Git-flow

    $ git feature myfeature
      switched to branch 'feature/rofl'

    $ ...
    $ git checkout develop
    $ git feature finish myfeature
      merging 'feature/rofl' into develop
      deleted branch 'feature/rofl'

Also `git-bug` and `git-refactor`.

### Branches

    $ git delete-merged-branches
      # hint: do `git remote prune origin` after

    $ git create-branch development
    $ git delete-branch development

    $ git fresh-branch gh-pages

### Inspecting

    $ git summary   # repo age, commits, active days, etc
    $ git impact    # impact graph
    $ git effort    # commits per file

### Github

     $ git fork strongloop/express

### Tags

     $ git release v1.0.0           # commit, tag, push-tags
     $ git delete-tag v1.0.0

### Conveniences

     $ git ignore "*.log"

### Locking

Assumes that changes will not be committed.

     $ git lock config/database.yml
     $ git unlock config/database.yml

### Etc

     $ git obliterate secret.yml   # remove all references to it

### References

 * https://github.com/visionmedia/git-extras