git-pretty

An implementation of Justin Hileman's handy chart from http://justinhileman.info/article/git-pretty/

… with some additions!

Use

Just run

npx git-pretty

This opens an interactive session like this:

So you have a mess on your hands. What sort of mess?

1: An uncommitted mess
2: I accidentally committed something
3: My Git history is ugly
4: I have a bunch of old branches I want gone
5: I want to sync my fork with the original repo
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Install

If you need this kind of help often, you could install git-pretty globally:

npm i -g git-pretty

Then you can drop npx and run

git-pretty

Using npx is recommended though, because it always uses the latest version.

Node JS?

Wasn't this a Python package, installable through pip?

Yes it was! But now it's a Node package, installable through npm. Ah, how things change through life.