Attach git commits to pivotal stories
08 Apr 2013
I heard about 10 different ways to organize work flow around pivotaltracker and git and about 5 gems to support that process. All of them seems abusing for me: the outcome of pivotal/git integration is a git commit attached to pivotal story and the rest of conventions like naming branches or merge policy doesn’t make any sense in long time perspective and is just a waste of time in fact.
That’s why I’ve decided to make the most trivial integration that covers this idea and don’t provide additional complexity: Meet git-storyid gem - the only one git/pivotaltracker integration that saves your time.
Installation
gem install git-storyidUsage
git storyid -m "Initial implementation of campaign tags"
# Api token (https://www.pivotaltracker.com/profile): a56f0e9a4fbXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
# Use SSL (y/n): y
# Your pivotal initials (e.g. BG): BG
# Project ID: 494XXXNow interactive menu is displayed to select one of Started stories owned by you:
[1] Removing Billing Page
[2] Welcome Email
[3] Email Shares - Capture
[4] Speed up activities by dates aggregation
[5] Mass Email to Customer List - thurs AM
[6] Investigate production error
[7] Tag campaign insertion points
Indexes(csv): 7
[campaign-tags 3020407] [#44116647] Initial implementation of campaign tags
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)Result commit:
commit 3020407e92cb125083cf50ad494ff15169a7f2e6
Author: Bogdan Gusiev <youremail@gmail.com>
Date: Fri Mar 15 12:42:32 2013 +0200
[#44116647] Initial implementation of campaign tags
Feature: Tag campaign insertion points and
campaigns with an identifier,
so only campaigns with matching identifier will get shownHow should I name branches?
Branch names is not something that you should focus on. Unlike commit messages, branches are removed from history after merge. That is why you should name them in a way that takes less of your time. I personally prefer to have only one branch for myself called bogdandev when I work on a project. When the feature is not done - there is no sense to work on another feature.
