When using git, I often find myself committing some work to master locally, and
having to move it all to a branch from which I can make a pull request. Then I
have to clean up afterwards. I do this often, yet it’s tedious and I still
sometimes have to look up the exact format of the git commands. So, I wrote a
script to automate it, git-offload.
Simply pass in the new branch name and the remote to you want to push the new branch, and git-offload automatically does the following things:
- Creates a new branch from your current commit
- Pushes that branch to an upstream of your choice
- Goes back to the original branch
- Resets the original branch to its upstream state
You can download git-offload from Gist.