autopr

Do you ever feel crippled by the anxiety of having to decide the name of a branch to create in Git, before you're sure what you're doing next?

autopr is a new tool that lets you procrastinate on this most particular of modern plights!

Now you don't have to decide what to name a branch until the last-possible moment— mere seconds before you poke your coworkers to review your pull request!

With autopr you'll have the idle time while coding to mull over a better branch name with more brevity or wit. Maybe with the additional time, you'll even earn a fleeting grin or muted groan!

And for those situations where you poke around a bit and realize there's something else that you should be doing instead— you won't find your git branch littered with the carcasses of intentions that fell by the wayside.

Will autopr solve world hunger? Nah. But at least it probably won't cause it. probably.

how to use it

1. Commit your changes on top of master with reckless abandon

2. Instead of pushing, run apr my-new-branch-name and it'll transfer all your your new my-new-branch-name branch, while resetting master to its old state. It'll then automatically push my-new-branch-name to the remote origin, and open the pull request creation wizard in your browser.

3. Grab a nerf gun to prod those unfortunate souls around you deigned to review your request

how to install it

npm install -g autopr

This will install the autopr command and its more suave and stylish nom de guerre apr

atomicity and stuff

The author of this library has taken great pains to make the library essentially "atomic". That is, if you press Ctrl-C while the command is running and interrupt it- it'll undo what it has done so you don't wind up in some silly intermediate state.

Thus if you make a mistake and didn't really mean to move your committed changes into a new branch and push it to the remote, you have a few precious seconds to abort, and it'll be as if you hadn't run apr at all.

what else

I donno.