---
title: Git extras
category: Git
---

### 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
    # sync your fork with the original repository:
    $ git remote add upstream https://github.com/ORIGINAL_OWNER/ORIGINAL_REPOSITORY.git
    $ git fetch upstream; git merge upstream/master


### 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