Oscar Del Ben

How to automatically pull and push to the correct repo in git

Here is a trick that saves me a lot of typing and frustration. If you are using git, you are probably using its branches feature. If this is true, you are already aware that you need to specify every time the correct branch with every pull and push:

oscar~/projects/my-project(beta)$ git pull origin beta


oscar~/projects/my-project(beta)$ git push origin beta

This is annoying, so I wrote a very simple bash function that does the same thing for me:

parse_git_branch_without_parentheses() {

  git branch 2> /dev/null | sed -e '/^[^*]/d' -e 's/* \(.*\)/\1/'

}

gpush() { git push origin $(parse_git_branch_without_parentheses); }

gpull() { git pull origin $(parse_git_branch_without_parentheses); }

Now I only need to type gpull or gpush to perform the correct operations without specifying the branch every time:

oscar~/projects/my-project(beta)$ gpull


oscar~/projects/my-project(beta)$ gpush

Playing with Clojure

It has been a while since I posted here. This post is just to let you know that I started to play with Clojure, so you should expect to see some related posts soon.