git-promote
Shell Script to help facilitate promoting from one environment (branch) to another
There are number of scripts out there that help developers deal with streamlining the version control process. This is one of them. With a single command you can checkout a target branch and merge your development (or test) branch eventually committing and pushing the changes on the target branch.
usage
The script makes some assumptions. You may want to adapt it to your environment. It assumes there are three environments, your dev (or develop), review (or test), and production (or master).
To move your code from your dev branch to review...
git promote review or git promote test
To move code from the review to production environment...
git promote production or git promote master
And that's it.
caution
This script presumes that you have committed your local dev changes before running the script.
installation
You simply need to move this script git-promote to somewhere in your executable path. I personally have a ~./bin directory that is on my path where I put custom scripts.
As you have noticed by the usage examples you do not need to put a dash in the name of the command even though that is the name of the script. You can issue it just as you would any other git command.