git-some

A little helper script to quickly generate git commits.

Usage

git some [number of commits] will generate number of commits commits in the current directory.

Every commit creates one file named <x>.txt, where x is a string representing the current commit number, from A to Z and AA to ZZ, etc.

If you omit number of commits, git some will default to generate one commit. git some will not overwrite exiting files, but rather try to generate files that do not exist yet.

Installation

Somewhere on your machine (preferably your home directory), execute the following commands:

$ git clone https://github.com/GROSSWEBER/git-some.git
$ cd git-some
$ ./install

install will set up the git some alias for you.

Git training attendees

It is useful to have some aliases ready save some typing:

git gl

git gl displays the whole graph.

git config --global alias.gl 'log --oneline --graph --all'

git diverged

git diverged creates the graph that we mostly use as a base for our discussion. It looks like the one below.

git config --global alias.diverged '!git init && git some 2 && git checkout -b topic && git some 3 && git checkout - && git some'

I'm not using git switch here because you might have an older Git client (< 2.23) that only supports git checkout.

Example

$ mkdir git-some-test

$ cd git-some-test

$ git init
Initialized empty Git repository in <somewhere>/git-some-test/.git/

$ git some 2 &&
  git checkout -b topic &&
  git some 3 &&
  git checkout - &&
  git-some
[master (root-commit) c540e60] master: A.txt
...

$ git log --oneline --graph --all
* 90ace40 (HEAD -> master) master: F.txt
| * 94042dd (topic) topic: E.txt
| * 8eb1751 topic: D.txt
| * 2c4b9f0 topic: C.txt
|/
* 644d9b9 master: B.txt
* c540e60 master: A.txt