Over time, TMI is starting to collect a number of small utilities for git.
These are available from our [git-utils](TBD) repository. Each utility has
-a man page describing its operation, so we'll only highlight the basics here.
+a man page describing its operation.
* git-empty-branch. Create an empty branch in a local git repository.
-* git-local. Store local branches temporarily in a shared git repository,
- probably hosted on a server used by the local development team. git-local
- offers upload, download, remove and list operations.
+* git-local. Store local branches in a shared git repository under a private
+ namespace. git-local provides upload, download, remove and list operations.
+ We use this tool to backup up local commits not yet suitable for pushing into
+ a local shared branch.
-* git-publish-branch. A shell version of a ruby script created by William
+* git-publish-branch. A shell version of the ruby script created by William
Morgan. See his [git utilities page](http://git-wt-commit.rubyforge.org).
- This has been a locally popular utility, and we did not want to see ruby
- effectively become yet another pre-requisite for git.
+ We did not want to have to install ruby just for this one little utility.