silasx / git-upstage

Take credit for someone else's work; or, a typo gone too far.

git-upstage: Squash a branch and claim (early) credit for it

git-upstage squashes the current branch (where it diverges from master) to a single commit on a new branch, under your name, and dated five minutes before the last commit.

Example:

Let's say that Mike Diligent has made three difficult commits on a new branch off of master, called frontend-refactor.

d5bef31 Mike Diligent     Thu Feb 26 22:28:50 2015 -0800  Third dose of work.
af66c53 Mike Diligent     Thu Feb 26 20:23:29 2015 -0800  Even more work.
b144683 Mike Diligent     Thu Feb 26 19:13:10 2015 -0800  Lots of work.

git-upstage would then create a new branch, quick-frontend-refactor, containing one commit, dated five minutes before d5bef31, with a smarmy commit message as follows:

7e1ee98 Dishonest John     Thu Feb 26 22:23:50 2015 -0800  Just a quick fix for the whole frontend-refactor issue.

Options

-b, --branch BRANCHNAME

The branch that you wish to squash. Default: current branch.

-n, --newbranch NEWBRANCHNAME

The name of the new branch created by this. Default: quick-CB, where CB is the name of the branch you're on at the time the command is run.

-h, --honest

Don't backdate commit. (Still claims credit for it though.)

Installation

Copy git-upstage to any folder on your $PATH and make sure it's executable.

Usage

It can be invoked as git upstage like a git utility.

git-upstage's Issues

date before first commit not last

dating 5 minutes before the last commit seems weird, surely it makes a lot more sense to date 5 minutes before the first commit?