git town append

git town append <branch-name> [-p | --prototype] [-d | --detached] [-c | --commit] [-m | --message <message>] [--propose] [--dry-run] [-v | --verbose]

The append command creates a new feature branch with the given name as a direct child of the current branch and brings over all uncommitted changes to the new branch.

Consider this stack:

main
 \
* feature-1

We are on the feature-1 branch. After running git town append feature-2, the repository will have this stack:

main
 \
  feature-1
   \
*   feature-2

If your Git workspace is clean (no uncommitted changes), it also syncs the current branch to ensure your work in the new branch happens on top of the current state of the repository. If the workspace contains uncommitted changes, git town append does not perform this sync to let you commit your open changes first and then sync manually.

Positional argument

When given a non-existing branch name, git town append creates a new feature branch with the main branch as its parent.

Options

-p
--prototype

Adding the --prototype aka -p switch creates a prototype branch.

-d
--detached

The --detached aka -d flag does not pull updates from the main or perennial branch. This allows you to build out your stack and decide when to pull in changes from other developers.

-c
--commit

When given, commits the currently staged changes into the branch to create and remains on the current branch. This is intended to quickly commit changes unrelated to the current branch into another branch and keep hacking on the current branch. Committing suppresses all branch updates to allow you to get your open changes committed.

-b
--beam

Moves (“beams”) one or more commits from the current branch to the new child branch that gets created. Lets you select the commits to beam via a visual dialog. Beaming suppresses all branch updates. Any merge conflicts encountered while beaming arise from moving the beamed commits.

-m
--message

Commit message to use together with --commit. Implies --commit.

--propose

Propose the created branch.

--dry-run

Use the --dry-run flag to test-drive this command. It prints the Git commands that would be run but doesn’t execute them.

-v
--verbose

The --verbose aka -v flag prints all Git commands run under the hood to determine the repository state.

Configuration

If push-new-branches is set, git town append also creates the tracking branch for the new feature branch. This behavior is disabled by default to make git town append run fast and save CI runs. The first run of git town sync will create the remote tracking branch.

If the configuration setting new-branch-type is set, git town append creates a branch with the given type.