Gitup: Native integration for Git flow

Created on 22 Mar 2016 · 9Comments · Source: git-up/GitUp

It would be very nice to see UI options for Github Flow ( Git flow ? ) in GitUp, so far your UI is the best i've seen and it's a shame this feature is missing !

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ghost

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I see gitflow as more of a convention than a tool. And I can "do git flow" with GitUp as it is.

On the other hand, I would find one particular addition useful: To always see the master and develop branches on the left. I think that this could be simple to implement (just different branch tip sorting order) and this way these branches would always get the same colors, etc. This could be configurable in repo settings like this:

Show these branches first: [ master, develop ]
                           Put comma-separated branch names here. 
                           They will always be shown in this order.

mik01aj on 17 May 2016

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yes, yes! And this could apply to the graph layout too (related: https://github.com/git-up/GitUp/issues/81) - the perfect version would look like this (upside down of course):

mik01aj on 24 Mar 2016

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Thanks for the quick action.. I will be waiting eagerly for this !

ghost on 25 Mar 2016

The only thing stopping me from using gitup exclusively.

krosullivan on 29 Mar 2016

I see gitflow as more of a convention than a tool. And I can "do git flow" with GitUp as it is.

Show these branches first: [ master, develop ]
                           Put comma-separated branch names here. 
                           They will always be shown in this order.

mik01aj on 17 May 2016

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I think the suggestion of @mik01aj makes sense, and it would be useful outside of the git flow usecase besides. Edit: It would be great to be able to drag and drop the branches to reorder them in the UI.

As for having some sort of git flow UI in GitUp, I'm against it. I use GitUp because it is so minimalistic, it has great keyboard shortcuts, and it doesn't try to constrain or direct my workflow in any way. Those reasons also make GitUp great for git novices.

There are other tools for which git flow is the focus, and it would be a shame in my opinion to complicate GitUp with git flow UI.

maxkfranz on 7 Jul 2016

Since git-flow is an optional convention on top of git, GitUp would need to function without git-flow anyway. Since git-flow is opt-in I don't believe it'd harm the minimalism of GitUp which could continue to work in the way it always has.

kmark on 8 Jul 2016

how about just adding the tiny feature I suggested above? It shouldn't hurt minimalism, and it can help various branch workflows, because then it'd be easier to read the graph of branches.

mik01aj on 11 Jul 2016

201 (pull request for git-flow support)

I added simple git-flow support for gitUp. Currently it doesn't support "support" branches but seems like another functions works.

AlexIzh on 20 Aug 2016

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If this is to work properly, please please PLEASE use the avh fork of git flow. Git flow has been abandoned as a project for years, and no gui uses the avh release...which is far superior.