Introduction

Git-flow are a set of git extensions to provide High level repository operations for Vincent Driessen’s branching model.

• Git flow gives an excellent command line help and output.
• Git-flow is a merge based solution. It does not rebase feature branches.

Installation

• As prerequisite you need a working git installation.
• Git flow works on MacOsx, Linux and Windows

For OSX:

• With mac ports

port install git-flow
For Linux:
apt-get install git-flow

Getting Started

Git flow needs to be initialized in order to customize your project configuration.

Initialize

git flow init
It is recommended to use the default values when you are going to be asked on naming conventions for your branches

Features

• Develop new features for upcoming releases
• Typically exist in developers repos only

Start a New Feature

Development of new features starting from the ‘develop’ branch. Start developing a new feature with:
git flow feature start MYFEATURE
This action creates a new feature branch based on ‘develop’ and switches to it.

Finish up a Feature

Finish the development of a feature. This action performs the following:

• Merged MY_FEATURE into ‘develop’
• Removes the feature branch
• Switches back to ‘develop’ branch

git flow feature finish MY_FEATURE

Publish a Feature

Publish a feature to the remote server so it can be used by other users.
git flow feature publish MY_FEATURE
Getting a published Feature
Get a feature published by another user.
git flow feature pull origin MYFEATURE

Make a Release

• Support preparation of a new production release

Start a release

To start a release please use the git flow release command. It creates a release branch created from the ‘develop’ branch.
git flow release start RELEASE [BASE]
It is recommended to publish the release branch after creating it to allow release commits by other devs.
git flow release publish RELEASE

Finish up a release

Finishing a release is one of the big steps in git branching. It performs:

• Merges the release branch back into ‘master’
• Tags the release with its name
• Back-merges the release into ‘develop’
• Removes the release branch

git flow release finish RELEASE
Don’t forget to push your tags with git push --tags

HotFixes

• Hot-fixes brings from the necessity to act immediately upon an undesired state of a live production version
• May be branched off from the corresponding tag on the master branch that marks the production version.

Like the other git flow commands, a hotfix is started with:
git flow hotfix start VERSION [BASENAME]
The version argument hereby marks the new hotfix release name. Optionally you can specify a basename to start from.

Finish a HotFix

By finishing a hotfix it gets merged back into develop and master. Additionally the master merge is tagged with the hotfix version.
git flow hotfix finish VERSION

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