Tool for Remote Mob Programming

Swift handover for remote mobs using git. mob is a CLI tool written in GO. It keeps your master branch clean and creates WIP commits on mob-session branch.

How to use it?

# simon begins the mob session as typist
simon$ mob start 10
# WORK
# after 10 minutes...
simon$ mob next
# carola takes over as the second typist
carola$ mob start 10
# WORK
# after 10 minutes...
carola$ mob next
simon$ mob start 10
# WORK
# After 6 minutes the work is done.
simon$ mob done
simon$ git commit --message "describe what the mob session was all about"

How does it work?

mob start 10 creates branch mob-session and pulls from origin/mob-session, and creates a ten minute timer
mob next pushes all changes to origin/mob-sessionin a mob next [ci-skip] commit
mob done squashes all changes in mob-session into staging of master and removes mob-session and origin/mob-session
mob status display the mob session status and all the created WIP commits
mob reset deletes mob-session and origin/mob-session

How to install

$ brew install golang
$ git clone https://github.com/remotemobprogramming/mob
$ cd mob
$ ./install
# Now, you can use the mob tool from any directory in the terminal

On linux systems you need the GNUstep speech engine to get the timer running.

On Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install gnustep-gui-runtime golang
git clone https://github.com/remotemobprogramming/mob
cd mob
sudo ./install

Windows

Install Golang: Download and execute MSI from Download page
Open console and execute following commands

> git clone https://github.com/remotemobprogramming/mob
> cd mob
> .\install.cmd
# Now, you can use the mob tool from anywhere directory in the terminal

How can one customize it?

You can set several environment variables that will be picked up by mob:

# override default values if necessary
export MOB_WIP_BRANCH=mob-session
export MOB_BASE_BRANCH=master
export MOB_REMOTE_NAME=origin
export MOB_WIP_COMMIT_MESSAGE="mob next [ci-skip]"
export MOB_NEXT_STAY=false # set to true to stay in the MOB_WIP_BRANCH after 'mob next' instead of checking out MOB_BASE_BRANCH
export MOB_DEBUG=false

The easiest way to enable them for a single call is as follows:

$ MOB_NEXT_STAY=true mob next

How to contribute

Create a pull request.

Credits

Developed and maintained by Simon Harrer.
Contributions and testing by Jochen Christ, Martin Huber, Franziska Dessart, and Nikolas Hermann. Thank you!
Logo designed by Sonja Scheungrab.

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