Octopolo

A set of Github workflow scripts.

$ gem install octopolo

Interactively set up your local machine for GitHub octopolo, including configuring your user-level setting and setting up a GitHub API token for our scripts to use.

octopolo setup

Create a new branch from the main branch and push it out to GitHub.

new-branch bug-123-something

Create a pull-request against the project's deploy branch, associating with the given GitHub issue, if one is provided.

pull-request

From within a bugfix branch, merge to the current staging branch.

stage-up

From within a bugfix branch, merge the latest released code (or, optionally, another named branch) into your current branch.

sync-branch
sync-branch some-other-branch

Optionally you can add the line merge_resolver: <path/to/script> to the .octopolo.yml to have Octopolo try to resolve conflicts automatically via a script upon merge failure.

Select from recent release tags and generate a link to the GitHub compare view.

compare-releases